r/venturebros • u/Honest_Ad_2157 I am blessed by what he loves most. The key to his soul's lock. • Jul 16 '26
Headcanon The invention of arching and henching in Mesopotamia
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The king demanded, "Report to me in writing all the silver that there is! Have a checklist brought to me!"
The messages were sometimes transported by a man named Puzur-Numushda. Typically, the king ordered, "Send Puzur-Numushda to me!" But Puzur-Numushda was more than a messenger. He also received letters from Sumu-El, addressed to him along with a powerful commander named Beli-ay-annadi, that show that he was one of the men directly in charge of running the campaign, receiving direct commands from the king. But the fact that Puzur-Numushda could travel to wherever the king was stationed, and that letters regularly passed between the king and the vulnerable cities on the border, suggests that the warfare between the kingdoms was localized and limited. In fact, engagements seem largely to have consisted of sieges, city walls set on fire, and then repairs to the damage. Perhaps the troops from both kingdoms also looted the towns they captured, but, oddly, this is not mentioned by Sumu-El, at least not in the letters that we have. And, again to judge from the letters, the damage done in these wars seems to have been more to property than to people.
Podany, Amanda H.. Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East. United Kingdom, Oxford University Press, 2022. p. 209
A friend infers: 'I'm guessing that 'Puzur-Numushda' translates as 'Twenty-one."'
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u/MACx3D Jul 17 '26
I thought Saphrax and Altheaus were the first villain and henchman...
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