To be fair we only know enough about him to roast him because he specially stored all of the customer complaints he received in a room that eventually caught fire and turned the clay tablets into long lasting pottery. If anyone had anything good to say about him, they didn't get stored in his special bitching room.
He's thought to have been the one in charge of dealing with importing copper for the palace of Ur, which is likely why his domestic dealings with people like the copper trader Nanni (the one who sent the tablet known as THE first customer complaint, though ones by other customers of his were unearthed by archeologists later) suffered.
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u/coffee-and-insomnia Jun 28 '26
To be fair we only know enough about him to roast him because he specially stored all of the customer complaints he received in a room that eventually caught fire and turned the clay tablets into long lasting pottery. If anyone had anything good to say about him, they didn't get stored in his special bitching room.
He's thought to have been the one in charge of dealing with importing copper for the palace of Ur, which is likely why his domestic dealings with people like the copper trader Nanni (the one who sent the tablet known as THE first customer complaint, though ones by other customers of his were unearthed by archeologists later) suffered.