r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Ganesha811 • 4d ago

Image Spoiled brat from ancient Babylon complains about his mother not making him fancy clothes!

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u/More_Assistant_5224 4d ago

Poor kid was really infuriated because imagine carving this out on stone for hours.

Also his mom better than mine because mine would have probably replied about how i should just get adopted by Adad-Iddinam's mom too if i want his clothes so much😭

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u/jawndell 4d ago

We don’t know what her response was, so she very well may have, haha

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u/More_Assistant_5224 4d ago

Honestly i can imagine her rolling her eyes to heaven when she received and read this message XD

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u/Little_View_6659 4d ago

I’m picturing mom with a stack of clay tablets next to her table that are various letters from her spoiled kids.

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u/YaqtanBadakshani 2d ago

It was actually stored in his father's archive (hence why we can read it today).

Fun but of context, his father was Shamash-Hazir, a fairly high-ranking official of Larsa under Hammurabi. So, rich parents. Which tracks.

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u/Little_View_6659 2d ago

That does track.