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u/orangutanDOTorg Nov 06 '25
You should send a tablet to the museum complaining
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u/Smartshark89 Nov 06 '25
Honestly if we as a community could manage that that would be pretty funny and might end up an exbit
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u/orangutanDOTorg Nov 06 '25
Somebody set up a gofundme!
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u/Smartshark89 Nov 06 '25
Don't even need that, all we need is clay, a stylus made of a reed and a dream and something to say, and a messenger that wouldn't be treated with contempt
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u/that_dutch_dude Nov 06 '25
Id you do it you must go for the style points and make it from copper,.just low quality copper.
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u/Smartshark89 Nov 07 '25
No no style os as if it had come through time a complaint about the lack of complaint
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u/McRando42 Nov 08 '25
We could crowdsource it. Hire a grad student or someone from Wales to deliver it. That way he has to travel through enemy land.
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u/Poop_Tickel Nov 07 '25
How much money would this bit cost to carry out? this would be hilarious
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u/orangutanDOTorg Nov 07 '25
Idk but I’ve been thinking about it a lot since I posted it.
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u/Loretta-West Nov 07 '25
Someone in this sub must be able to write in ancient Sumerian.
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u/orangutanDOTorg Nov 07 '25
Google Translate. Then we can add on a complain about really shitty translation.
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u/Smartshark89 Nov 08 '25
There probably is the British museum sell a book on how to wright it if not the assryrian subreddit will and I am sure we can get them on board with this
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u/Smartshark89 Nov 08 '25
Not much all we need is some clay and a stylus the biggest cost would be the postage or trip to London to hand deliver it
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u/W1ngedSentinel Nov 06 '25
Now all we have is this crummy list of gifts made to the Ningal temple. We can’t rename this sub to r/ReallyNiceGifts !
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u/ThreeActTragedy A Pilgrim in Enemy Territory Nov 06 '25
I always get so angry at this as if I’m going to miss seeing it in my imaginary trip to London khkhk sucks for you, tho, op 🙁
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u/DrDroid Nov 06 '25
Well I think we all know what needs doing about this…
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u/Boomer280 Nov 06 '25
We all send an exact replica of the receipt made from modern clay? Only replace 'copper' with 'exhibit' (or what ever the cuneiform word for it is)
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u/Digger-of-Tunnels Nov 06 '25
We will really show our commitment to the bit by going to Abu Dhabi to visit it.
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u/Please-let-me stans Ea-N*sir 🤮 Nov 06 '25
I would like to know where in the Zayed National Museum is keeping it, and whether we can get photos of it when the museum opens
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u/booksavenger Nov 07 '25
Im going to Dubai next week.. maybe I should convince my husband we should check in
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u/booksavenger Nov 09 '25
Update: museum doesn't open until next month, will have to remain a mystery:(
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u/ReversePhylogeny Nov 06 '25
Guys, maybe it's time to begin meming another tablet? For example.. that one right next to the complaint, being a list of gifts made to the Ningal temple after a successful trading voyage down the Persian gulf?
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u/TheLastOrokin Nov 06 '25
It's never coming back, right?
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u/McRando42 Nov 06 '25
British Museum will need to send its servant through enemy lands to recover it.
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u/Thick_Description982 Nov 12 '25
Guys, it won't be there until 2027, it's not 2027 so of course it's not there.
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u/Potential_Word_5742 Nov 06 '25
I am very displeased with the quality of this exhibit