Ancient Complaint About Dying Sesame

one of those moments where you absolutely feel the kinship of all human beings every where and at all times A typical complaint filed by Babylonian administrators: “I am not getting water for my sesame field. The sesame will die. Don't tell me later, ‘You did not write to me.’ The sesame is visibly dying. Ibbi-llabrat saw it. That sesame will die, and I have warned you.” As per my last clay tablet,

A modern social-media post presents an ancient Babylonian clay tablet as a complaint about a sesame field not receiving water. The joke is that bureaucratic frustration and passive-aggressive reminders have remained relatable across thousands of years, making this useful as a reaction to shared human annoyance.

• @threedotssavetogallery / 4810 2024-05-25