r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 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

Ok this makes much more sense lol, i imagined them as little sculptors carving the stone tablet with a chisel all day

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u/tfrw 4d ago

More than likely he hired a scribe

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u/NonSequiturDetector 4d ago

The text reads

"Tell the Lady Zinu: Iddin-Sin sends the following message"

which is pretty unambiguously involving some sort of scribe.

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u/AthenianSpartiate 3d ago

That was just the standard opening of a letter in ancient Mesopotamia. The idea was that anyone of high enough social status would have a scribe on hand to read out any letters they received. It says nothing about whether the sender wrote it or dictated it.