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The British museum disrespect

That’s how they exhibit the letter from Nanni.
This tablet has become an Internet meme. Every nerd, aka the core demographic of any museum, knows about it.
They could have made it a centerpiece for an entire exhibition of ancient mining trade culled what so ever.
What did they do. Place it in some lower corner of a Vitrine and call it complaint..
is this Nannis revenge? Robbing Ea Nasir of his rightful fame.

u/NFZedd — 6 days ago
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The Ea-nāṣir complaint tablet inspired me to make a game.

Hey everyone!

Like a lot of you, I fell down the Ea-nāṣir rabbit hole after discovering the infamous complaint tablet. It started as a funny meme… then I caught myself wondering:

What if someone actually made a game inspired by this?

So that’s exactly what I’ve been working on.

Sumerian Merchant is a first-person trading simulator set in ancient Mesopotamia. Think somewhere between Supermarket Simulator, Dealer’s Life, and Retro Rewind… except you’re running a shop 4,000 years ago.

Some of the things you’ll do:

* Run your own ancient shop.
* Weigh goods using barley and standardized weights on an actual balance scale.
* Buy, sell, and pawn merchandise.
* Haggle with customers.
* Inspect certain items to determine whether they’re genuine or fake.
* Unlock new products and customer types as your XP and reputation grows.
* Experience changing seasons that affect trade and daily life.
* Anunnaki Encounter.

And yes…

Ea-nāṣir is in the game.

I’ll keep his role a surprise for now, but complaints are one of the core mechanics. You’ll often be the one filing complaints against fake goods, theft, broken promises. Customers can also file complaints about you if act against the law.

One feature I’m especially excited about is collecting real historical artifacts. As your trading network expands, you’ll start discovering artifacts from different parts of the world. Collect enough from a region and you’ll unlock merchants and customers from that culture. Also thinking about designing in-game characters based on statues.

It is only a month old, I’ve been thinking about making this project as public as possible and sharing the development process openly because I genuinely think this community could make it much better than I could on my own.

I’d love to hear your ideas: (AMA)

* What mechanics would you want to see?
* What Ea-nāṣir or Mesopotamian references would make you smile?
* What would keep you hooked running an ancient shop for hours?

And yes…

Really shitty copper will be one of the rarest collectibles in the game.

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u/SumerianMerchant — 9 days ago
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Trying to do something funny

I stumbled upon a store selling these copper bracelets with custom engravings. The above image was one of the examples given and it gave me an idea.

I wanted to put together a phrase roughly meaning "Ea-nāṣir's Fine Copper Ingots". Using a combination of The Tablet Itself, comments from other redditors, and Wiktionary, I came up with the following:

𒍏 𒄖𒁀𒊑 𒁕𒄠𒆪𒁴 𒀜𒌅 𒂍𒀀𒈾𒍢𒅕

ᵘʳᵘᵈᵃ gu-ba-ri da-am#-qu2-tim at-tu-e₂-a-na-ṣi-ir
uruda gubārī damqūtim attû-Ea-nāṣir

I know this is a long shot because most people don't know the first thing about Akkadian or cuneiform but can anyone who knows better than me tell me if I'm way off base?

tl;dr Somebody wanna check my work so I don't fuck up an extremely niche joke?

u/ruscomaeth — 10 days ago