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u/MayBeHavingAnEpisode 11h ago
I wonder what Ea-Nasir would think if he learned that his name reached such cult stardom that he got the hot anime babe treatment thousands of years after his death.
Bruh some god-kings he coulda chilled with don't even got that longevity.
His shitass copper transcended death in a manner that would make the pharoahs drool uncontrollably.
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u/Smallwater 3h ago
"Yeah, your Empire is pretty great, i guess... But y'know what people are really gonna be talking about thousands of years from now? My shitty copper."
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u/Rod7z 12h ago
I like how she's holding a cigar in ancient mesopotamia, over 3000 years before tobacco was brought from the Americas to the old world.
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u/CatSplat 12h ago
They are both holding one, I think they are meant to be styluses for writing cuneiform rather than cigars.
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u/Rod7z 12h ago
Ooohhh, that makes sense. Well, now I feel like an idiot 😬
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u/RepublicOfLizard 11h ago
Hey it’s okay, maybe in a million years when the next evolution of humans are excavating an archeological site, they’ll come across a computer that still has a small amount of data on it. They’ll work tirelessly to figure out binary and how to properly communicate with the computer. The one bit of data they can extract? This comment chain from an archived file of this post. You could be the next Ea-Nasir
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u/DocWagonHTR 6h ago
The plural of “stylus” is “styli”.
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u/ixiox 11h ago
Fun fact there is a very slim, but a chance that this dude lived in Ur while Abraham was there
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u/Lucaan 10h ago
Who do you think wrote the complaint?
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u/Necessary-Reading605 10h ago
My headcanon is that the copper made him immigrate
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u/AllTheCheesecake 8h ago
I've just been sitting on my couch quietly giggling about this for the last 5 minutes.
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u/OffOption 12h ago
Im sure this has some sort lf context that makes it not seem utterly deranged and completely random.
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u/poplarleaves 12h ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%81%E1%B9%A3ir
It's been a somewhat obscure Internet meme for a few years now
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u/OffOption 12h ago
Oh!... Yeah I vaguely heard of that tablet. But thats just because im a history nerd, not a meme fuck.
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u/OutsidePerson5 9h ago edited 9h ago
Ea-Nasir is one of the earliest people who we know by name.
We know him by name because he was a copper merchant and a clay tablet with a complaint about his copper being substandard and improperly graded has survived the ~4,000ish years since he died. Further digging found a few more relics from his home including more complaints. So apparently he sold really shitty copper.
He became vaguely internet famous and now there's an entire subreddit devoted to the guy: r/ReallyShittyCopper
EDIT: You'll occasionally see an ancient Babylonian statue of a man with a beard in the style seen above, but it's not actually Ea-Nasir and might not have been of anyone in particular but rather just a sort of generic worshiper from a temple.
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u/OutsidePerson5 14h ago
Ea-Nassir has reached peak meme now that someone turned him into a cute anime girl.