I love the inscribed metadata at the top:
Tell Ea-nasir: Nanni sends the following message:
It’s like an email header for a clay tablet.
Tell Ea-nasir: Nanni sends the following message:
It’s like an email header for a clay tablet.
I wonder if ancient Ur had dodgy FedEx delivery guy equivalents who would knock on your door and toss the tablet in the dirt and mark it as "delivered".
At least then it'd be delivered (as opposed to the normal FedEx approach of "knocking" by slapping a missed delivery slip on the door).
this explains the three paragraphs of flowery hellos at the opening of most old letters — it’s written as if the writer is standing in front of the reader and speaking.