Reposted by Laura Eek!! Hall
Three thousand years ago, a Greek potter looked at a bowl and thought:
‘You know what this needs? A leg!’
Clay bowl with leg-shaped handle!🦵😆
Early Geometric period 850 BC. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me
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Laura Eek!! Hall
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![Helpful_Loss_3739 OP • 2d ago
lam hesitant about exact transliteration. It does contain information to contact me IRL after all.
But a rough translation goes this way:
"To the museum, tell them thus [name redacted] speaks so.
I am a young/apprentice scribe.
I ask for a sumerian teacher
From the sumerian teacher I ask for understanding.
Send your tablet to the land of Finland.
In [city name redacted] next to [city name redacted] | wait.
Into the house of tablets in the [city name redacted] send your tablet.
What do I write right?
What do I write wrong?
Reply!
Summer - year 2026"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hns5ai35d7nmtifkqqny2bjz/bafkreiepjmxkiojqvbvmg7czynwnarjtcrgrvtsdgohbjmecrqbmtahsxi)
![a tweet from my old twitter account reading “[historian voice] it has always sucked ass to be alive”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n7xsqoc7ztdsmfuvfmtndp52/bafkreia4nvs2gr7aqtvyqinfjfu4bzisrmx6uroc6j64k7rklrpvnsb6gq)
