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LET RA HIMSELF HEAR YOU!

@SophusHelle Can’t wait to see what you do with this text! I have all your books on my Christmas list and love your work 💙

While actual markets are rarely found in archaeological excavations, the evidence does indicate that they were located near city gates, which allowed for easy access for merchants coming in and out of the cities. Indeed, trade is attested as happening at gates

32. Although the number of unhappy days is endless (?), yet life is better than death. A good place to end!

29. When the sun is setting outside so that you cannot even recognise the hand in front of you, go inside! 30. A great river is a grave. 31. I would make the beer sweet but my neighbour would not appreciate it.

The Best Sumerian proverbs source: etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.… 1. You should not cut the throat of that which has already had its throat cut. 2. "Though I still have bread left over, I will eat your bread!" Will this endear a man to the household of his friend?

I fat fingered on Amazon’s app while searching for some Ugarit-related books and the AI response is depressingly funny You heard it here. Ugaritic mythology is extremist ideology 🙄

i did not expect to discover that inflation originated in mesopotamian mythology sometime in the second half of the 2nd millennium BCE

This passage of Enuma Elish (line 97-100) “Tiamat opened her mouth to swallow, He thrust in the ill wind so she could not close her lips. The raging winds bloated her belly, Her insides were stopped up, she gaped her mouth wide.” is Marduk: *inflates you big and round* sorry

@jay13x ✌️

@AVA_Wue Asking my university’s library about it now… 👀

📚New publication from AVA: Andrea Trameri has just published a history of the kingdom of Kizzuwatna in southern #Anatolia, from its origins to the fall of the #Hittite Empire: doi.org/10.1163/978900…

1/ In the 13th century BC Ugarit was one of the most important cities of the Eastern Mediterranean. Because of its strategic location and large harbour, Ugarit had become an important trade center with a strong cosmopolitan character and a highly literate society. #Ugarit