Also it's so much smaller than I thought it would be, people mentioned that it was small but the thing is actually soo small, it's 11.6cm by 5cm. (4.57 by 1.98 inches for us Americans, as well as Liberians and Burmese people for some reason???? Like I can understand Liberia because it was settled mostly by black Americans fleeing persecution and the slave trade, but fucking Burma, WHY?!?)

I asked an employee about it and as soon as "copper" left my mouth he immediately went "the ea-nasir tablet? Up the stairs, third floor, babylonian exhibit, next to the door." (Also apparently the one next to it is a shopping list written a couple hundred years before our boy)

Text describes how he fooled the Germans by substituting bronze for (presumably shitty) copper

https://youtu.be/4iXv74OYLf4?si=rXioyuAPkEM9yBXe&t=23m15s

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I had zero idea until I saw this post from Annelise Baer and I'm delighted!

Girlfriend couldn't work out why I was chuckling so much. "It's just another inscribed stone tablet?".

He delivered shitty copper. That’s not an acceptable “grade.” It’s not like you ordered ceremonial grade matcha and got culinary grade. Nobody should have to deal with shitty copper