Ladies, I have once again escaped from federal prison

ok but this lighting brings out the color so well

Pad en pad.

Een paddenpaadje.

So far I have found two sources, here and here. Do you notice anything in common about these two? Both of these only have one citation, which is the twitter/x account @/TheAncientWorld. I don’t have an account on X, so if anyone wants to do further digging for me it would be appreciated, but it appears that the original post has been deleted.

The first source I found, from thewhippet.org, acknowledges that the image shown in the post is actually a map of irrigation systems. They provide this image instead, along with the translation (I can’t personally verify whether the translation is accurate):

I have zero idea where these images are sourced from, besides the @/TheAncientWorld twitter account. Reverse image searching both of these yielded no results that I know of. Then again, I didn’t feel like paying any service to have access to “deep” searches, so if anyone has more reliable ways of finding image sources I would gladly accept the help.

All in all, I can’t really say for certain if I think it’s real, but it’s not looking great. And, if I’m being honest, I’m mostly doing this not because I’m personally invested in knowing if it’s actually real, but because it’s annoying and stupid that people in the notes are saying it’s real because one singular person provided one of the sources I listed above.

I looked up “Yale Babylonian Collection 5471”. The Yale site itself is down at the moment, but I was able to find it in Archibab, the Old Babylonian archive.

https://archibab.fr/texte/15185

“(1) Speak to my lord: (2) Thus says Sin-gamil. (4) May (3) Šamaš and Marduk (4) keep you in good health (3) forever for my sake! (5) Concerning the workmen who you wrote about, (6) on the day that I saw your tablet, (8) I made (7) Awil-ili (8) ready and (10) he set out (9) on the journey at night. (11) As to the sesame field, (13) I am not getting water (12) from Sin-id-dinam’s hands; (14) the sesame will die. (15) Do not say “You did not write me”! (16) The sesame is … to see; (17) Ibbi-Ilabrat saw it; (18) that sesame will die. (19) I have written to you (now), (let me hear) what you say. (20) And perhaps (22) I did not ask for (20) the plough-… (21) of Mašatanum, (23) but send me the handles.“

2. The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard

3. "Abolitionists turned the tables on Europeans by accusing them of being cannibals when they ate sugar tainted with the flesh and blood of slaves."

here's the intro