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Jenn Deyo

Sep 17, 2026

13:56
Jen, tell me a little bit about what some of these tablets describe with this ancient world, not from academia's lens, but what do some of them talk about?
14:06
Yeah, I mean, I think of, here's a really good one that's come out over the course of the last couple of years.
14:14
The Hymn of Ashnuna, the very first poet was a woman, a priestess who was, you know, singing laments and telling stories about, you know, her patron god.
14:26
I would say that the majority, the high majority of these texts that have been found are often, they're almost all clerical and they're almost all accounting and related to measurements and goods and sales and identifying, you know, who they're selling things to.
14:49
And then I'd say that the other quarter of them are related to law.
14:54
I mean, and really interesting laws that we kind of take for granted.
14:59
Like for instance, you know, we think of Hammurabi as the first law abiding, um, progenitor to how we understand law now.

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