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Worried About Mesopotamian Pipe Fittings? You Are Not Alone

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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

There is a wonderful joker on Twitter called @LegbootLegit who makes stuff and sometimes hides it in stores.

He has made this:

http://twitter.com/LegbootLegit/status/1652003586740502545/photo/1

As you can tell, these are copper pipe fittings from the Ea-Nasir workshop in ancient Mesopotamia.

The clay tablet provided for customer feedback is an elegant touch.

I particularly love it because Ea-Nasir and his lousy copper got into my work-in-progress over at the h2g2 Post. A88022991

For those who don't know: the cuneiform tablet containing the Ea-Nasir copper story is the oldest customer complaint letter in recorded history.

smiley - dragon


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