something bordering on weird

The oldest playable board game in the world

[sumerianly] its cause youre always on that damn clay tablet

just because you can afford to commission a scribe to chisel out cuneiform hatemail does not make your contemptible attempts to defame me any less disgraceful, the quality of my copper is HIGH my ingots are PRISTINE

I was going to say something rude but that’s actually that’s fascinating and I would genuinely love to hear more about mesopotamian writing methodology

Okay! It’s inscribed with a cube-shaped tool, as seen here.

So I throughly enjoyed this it’s delightful, but also I have a suggestion: Cuneiform ASMR

What’s really cool is that there were schools called Edubbas (although later on they were less schools and more just Some Dude’s house.) where young scribes-in-training would practice their craft by writing signs over and over again on a single tablet, (if you don’t cook the clay you can wipe it clean and reuse it) transcribing poetry, etc. and it turns out school really hasn’t changed in 4,000 years - There was homework, recesses, (overseen by a lukisallu, or “yard man”) there’s literature depicting parents scolding their kids for skipping class to mess around downtown with their friends, there’s tablets that seem to have been written by students struggling with dyslexia - but the coolest thing to me is this:

A bored student, thousands of years ago, decided to pass the time by doodling a fish on the back of their worksheet. It’s such a little thing but it’s just so incredibly cool to me that I can see the work of someone who lived so long ago and just think “same”.

Disclaimer: Most of this info came from the book “Reading and Writing in Ancient Babylon” by Dominique Charpin which I read years ago, so some of this information might be out-of-date and/or misremembered.

Sorry for rambling, you just activated a really big dormant hyperfixation of mine.

IN CASE YOU FUCKS HADN’T HEARD, A NEW COPY OF TABLET V OF THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH HAS BEEN FOUND, CONTAINING SOME PRETTY FUCKING GREAT NEW SHIT.

THIS IS A REALLY FUCKING EXCITING THING, BUT OF COURSE NOBODY SEEMS TO GIVE ENOUGH OF A FUCK ABOUT MESOPOTAMIAN SHIT TO ACTUALLY REPORT THIS ANYWHERE SOMEONE MIGHT SEE IT.

IT’S REALLY FUCKING COOL. TRUST US.

yesssssss

and I guess this makes the Gilgamesh fandom the winner in the contest of who had the longest time between updates…

Benders 1.15 and Hibbing 911 10.08 were both set in Hibbing, MN

Deputy from Benders

Deputy from Hibbing 911

Same crest on their uniforms

they nailed the continuity

Well that’s a first. Need I remind you of Crowley and Mesopotamia?

The lovely justanotheridijiton sent me some information that proves Crowley’s Mesopotamia comment was never a continuity error. In Great Britain that area was still referred to as Mesopotamia until 1921 (x)

Crowley was born in 1661, meaning he would have spent the majority of his existence thinking of that area as Mesopotamia. It also means he had enough time to die, become a demon, get back up to Earth, and have a fling with Naomi while that area was still known as Mesopotamia

This article (x) which claimed Mesopotamia didn’t fit in Crowley’s established timeline (and led to many people thinking it was a continuity error) talked about the fall of the Mesopotamian Empire being before Crowley was born. That’s true, during Crowley’s lifetime the area was part of the Ottoman Empire, but it was still referred to as Mesopotamia by the British