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• starik@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “How should we display these priceless ancient clay tablets?”

  “Just throw them in that bowl over there.”

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  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It seems like they would rub together and get messed up

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t think anyone’s going around shaking the basket

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  • gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think tablets like these are actually extremely common.

    I know a guy I spoke to at the British Museum about cuneiform tablets said they literally just have hundreds and hundreds of them in storage and they are most very mundane record keeping.

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    • starik@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You’re right. You can buy them on eBay for like $1000. Apparently ISIS does illegal excavations and sell the artifacts, and these are a common item.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Wheat Thicks.

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• ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Are these things tiny or is there just a weirdly large bowl for display to make them look like cereal for… reasons…?

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• Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I love how most examples of ancient writing are not fiction or poetry, but inventories, invoices and business letters.

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  • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you were scammed into buying that copper, you’d write an angry clay brick yourself.

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, but if you were the scammer, would you collect the clay bricks of everybody that complains?

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  • UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Can you imagine going to an ancient Assyrian CVS? You’d need a second cart just to take the receipt home!

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  • Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Middle Kingdom Egypt has a number of examples of fiction. If you count the religious texts under fiction there is a lot.

    Cuneiform tables are usually palm sized, so big biscuit sized.

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• PacMan@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Uhhh the Midwest will tempt you with puppy chow

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• imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Looks like triscuit

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    FR, or even like Life cereal a little bit.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I would eat that if I would gain the power to sell inferior copper

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• niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The magazine selection in the Uruk dentist’s waiting room.

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• Syndication@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Old-assyrian documents

  xkcd

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• AEGIS2317@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Iltam sumra rashupti elatim!

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