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Bronze Age Chutzpah – Rib-Ḫadda’s plea for help

Doubtlessly one of the most fascinating corpora of Akkadian attestations is the Tell El-Amarna corpus, containing…
Clothes make the awīlum

In Old Babylonian schools, if you didn’t wear the newest Prada™ robes but instead cheap hand-me-downs…
The “Princess, Do Your Homework!” Letter

The letter that started the saga is SAA 16 28, also known as the “Princess, Do…
The Old Babylonian Ice-trade

This letter was sent to our favourite good-for-nothing, Yasmaḫ-Addû, by the vassal king of Carchemish. It…
Yasmaḫ-Addû, the “king” of Mari

By the beginning of the 18th century BCE, Yasmaḫ-Addû’s father, Šamši-Addû, had built an empire: The…

Bronze Age Chutzpah – Rib-Ḫadda’s plea for help