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He wasn’t just into copper trading. There are letters complaining about Ea-nasir’s business practices with respect to everything from kitchenwares to real estate speculation to second-hand clothing. The guy was everywhere.

The majority of the surviving correspondences regarding Ea-nasir were recovered from one particular room in a building that is believed to have been Ea-nasir’s own house.

Like, these are clay tablets. They’re bulky, fragile, and difficult to store. They typically weren’t kept long-term unless they contained financial records or other vital information (which is why we have huge reams of financial data about ancient Babylon in spite of how little we know about the actual culture: most of the surviving tablets are commercial inventories, bills of sale, etc.).

But this guy, this Ea-nasir, he kept all of his angry letters - hundreds of them - and meticulously filed and preserved them in a dedicated room in his house. What kind of guy does that?

i gotta save tihs for a rainy day 

Normally I don’t just ask for donations, but it is at the point where I don’t have a choice anymore. I’ve taken on as many commissions as I comfortably can, but I still need help.

I still have no laptop, and my sister won’t allow me to use her laptop much anymore, and with school starting on the 8th I desperately need one.

Along with that, my medications have risen to be at least 70USD per month, and I cannot live comfortably without most of them.

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