“How should we display these priceless ancient clay tablets?”
“Just throw them in that bowl over there.”
It seems like they would rub together and get messed up
I don't think anyone's going around shaking the basket
goes around shaking the basket
>:o
I think tablets like these are actually extremely common.
I know a guy I spoke to at the British Museum about cuneiform tablets said they literally just have hundreds and hundreds of them in storage and they are most very mundane record keeping.
You’re right. You can buy them on eBay for like $1000. Apparently ISIS does illegal excavations and sell the artifacts, and these are a common item.
Shredded Wheat lookin-ass receipts.
Are these things tiny or is there just a weirdly large bowl for display to make them look like cereal for… reasons..?
I love how most examples of ancient writing are not fiction or poetry, but inventories, invoices and business letters.
If you were scammed into buying that copper, you'd write an angry clay brick yourself.
Yes, but if you were the scammer, would you collect the clay bricks of everybody that complains?
If the complaint was funny enough I would.
Can you imagine going to an ancient Assyrian CVS? You'd need a second cart just to take the receipt home!
Middle Kingdom Egypt has a number of examples of fiction. If you count the religious texts under fiction there is a lot.
Cuneiform tables are usually palm sized, so big biscuit sized.
Looks like triscuit
FR, or even like Life cereal a little bit.
I would eat that if I would gain the power to sell inferior copper
Uhhh the Midwest will tempt you with puppy chow
The magazine selection in the Uruk dentist's waiting room.
Old-assyrian documents
xkcd
Iltam sumra rashupti elatim!
22 Comments
starik@lemmy.zip · 44 pts · 228d
“How should we display these priceless ancient clay tablets?”
“Just throw them in that bowl over there.”
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 227d
It seems like they would rub together and get messed up
FishFace@piefed.social · 8 pts · 227d
I don't think anyone's going around shaking the basket
seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 227d
goes around shaking the basket
FishFace@piefed.social · 6 pts · 227d
>:o
gmtom@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 227d
I think tablets like these are actually extremely common.
I know a guy I spoke to at the British Museum about cuneiform tablets said they literally just have hundreds and hundreds of them in storage and they are most very mundane record keeping.
starik@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 227d
You’re right. You can buy them on eBay for like $1000. Apparently ISIS does illegal excavations and sell the artifacts, and these are a common item.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 27 pts · 228d
Shredded Wheat lookin-ass receipts.
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 227d
Are these things tiny or is there just a weirdly large bowl for display to make them look like cereal for… reasons..?
Rooty@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 228d
I love how most examples of ancient writing are not fiction or poetry, but inventories, invoices and business letters.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 21 pts · 228d
If you were scammed into buying that copper, you'd write an angry clay brick yourself.
marcos@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 227d
Yes, but if you were the scammer, would you collect the clay bricks of everybody that complains?
dumbass@piefed.social · 13 pts · 227d
If the complaint was funny enough I would.
UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 227d
Can you imagine going to an ancient Assyrian CVS? You'd need a second cart just to take the receipt home!
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 227d
Middle Kingdom Egypt has a number of examples of fiction. If you count the religious texts under fiction there is a lot.
Cuneiform tables are usually palm sized, so big biscuit sized.
imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 228d
Looks like triscuit
sundray@lemmus.org · 1 pts · 227d
FR, or even like Life cereal a little bit.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 228d
I would eat that if I would gain the power to sell inferior copper
PacMan@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 227d
Uhhh the Midwest will tempt you with puppy chow
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 227d
The magazine selection in the Uruk dentist's waiting room.
Syndication@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 227d
Old-assyrian documents
xkcd
AEGIS2317@feddit.org · 2 pts · 227d
Iltam sumra rashupti elatim!