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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jan 1, 2020 19:19:44 GMT
Well than good news you don`t have to wonder anymore, because here it is written around 1750 BC Complaint tablet to Ea-nasirTell Ea-nasir: Nanni sends the following message:
When you came, you said to me as follows : "I will give Gimil-Sin (when he comes) fine quality copper ingots." You left then but you did not do what you promised me. You put ingots which were not good before my messenger (Sit-Sin) and said: "If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!" What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt? I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves to collect the bag with my money (deposited with you) but you have treated me with contempt by sending them back to me empty-handed several times, and that through enemy territory. Is there anyone among the merchants who trade with Telmun who has treated me in this way? You alone treat my messenger with contempt! On account of that one (trifling) mina of silver which I owe(?) you, you feel free to speak in such a way, while I have given to the palace on your behalf 1,080 pounds of copper, and umi-abum has likewise given 1,080 pounds of copper, apart from what we both have had written on a sealed tablet to be kept in the temple of Shamash. How have you treated me for that copper? You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore (my money) to me in full. Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any copper from you that is not of fine quality. I shall (from now on) select and take the ingots individually in my own yard, and I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2020 2:10:38 GMT
Well than good news you don`t have to wonder anymore, because here it is written around 1750 BC Complaint tablet to Ea-nasirTell Ea-nasir: Nanni sends the following message:
When you came, you said to me as follows : "I will give Gimil-Sin (when he comes) fine quality copper ingots." You left then but you did not do what you promised me. You put ingots which were not good before my messenger (Sit-Sin) and said: "If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!" What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt? I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves to collect the bag with my money (deposited with you) but you have treated me with contempt by sending them back to me empty-handed several times, and that through enemy territory. Is there anyone among the merchants who trade with Telmun who has treated me in this way? You alone treat my messenger with contempt! On account of that one (trifling) mina of silver which I owe(?) you, you feel free to speak in such a way, while I have given to the palace on your behalf 1,080 pounds of copper, and umi-abum has likewise given 1,080 pounds of copper, apart from what we both have had written on a sealed tablet to be kept in the temple of Shamash. How have you treated me for that copper? You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore (my money) to me in full. Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any copper from you that is not of fine quality. I shall (from now on) select and take the ingots individually in my own yard, and I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt. I wonder if he gave him a bad review on yelp?
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Post by hi224 on Jan 2, 2020 2:36:34 GMT
interesting.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 2, 2020 4:33:35 GMT
Just to be sure, did he treat Nanni with contempt or not?
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jan 2, 2020 11:41:58 GMT
I assume he did.
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Post by Zos on Jan 2, 2020 13:52:06 GMT
Humans will always manage to be arseholes.
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Post by Morgana on Jan 12, 2020 9:29:53 GMT
Thanks for posting this. This is the kind of thing that makes us realise how close, and how similar, we really are to people that lived thousands of years ago. I feel sorry for the poor guy fleeced out of his copper ingots.
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