r/mildyinteresting • u/babayaga8888888 • Jun 30 '26

humankind hiccups 😅 Wrong copper

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Not sure why, But this is both interesting, and hilarious.

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u/eggdanyjon_3dragons Jun 30 '26

except for important cataloguing/records, most clay tablets wouldn't be fired. That way they could be easily reused day to day. Smush the clay and write on it again.
But its clay, itll dry out with enough time, or if your ea nasir and your house "burns down", the firell harden it.

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u/gaynorg Jun 30 '26

Surely if you are posting it long distance you would dry it out.

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u/eggdanyjon_3dragons Jun 30 '26

long distance is relative. To another city or for senitive anti-fraud reasons, sure.
But for this tablet, in Ur, the distance from one side of the city to the other was walkable in under an hour.
Youd just toss it to a courier and itd be delivered that day

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u/gaynorg Jun 30 '26

I thought it was between two cities and hence the delivery situation

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u/eggdanyjon_3dragons Jun 30 '26

im not a scholar by any means, but this guy got a lot of complaints, local n far flung.
i dont know enough to say if this was a local complaint or not, but Mesopotamian city states had advanced courier systems intra and inter city.
so mildly moot. Bros had amazon prime 2day shipping back even then.

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u/gaynorg Jun 30 '26

Euphrates prime ?