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ahazred8ta
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Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural ...
In the 1700s a ring was found in England, inscribed Silvianus with the name Senicianus scratched into it. In the 1800s a curse tablet was found 80 miles away, complaining that Senicianus stole the ring of Silvianus.
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There are three different extant clay tablets from Ur (circa 1750 BCE) complaining about the wares of the copper merchant Ea-nāṣir.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%81...
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vanattab
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Thats seems less interesting to me because they where all found in the copper merchants house. So it was just a records cache.
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numbsafari
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Ah, my precious…
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