> most are shipping receipts, tax records, legal contracts and court decisions.
I've been reading about origins of money and so came across reference to clay tablet writings by Syrian traders. Most of them are about mundane day-to-day life as you say but it's fascinating to just learn about life from days long past and forgotten. What's also interesting, to me, is the matters they bring up don't strike as alien but in fact can be related to by anyone even to this day. For instance this passage, taken from a paper[1]:
“As to the textiles about which you wrote to me in the following terms: “they are (too) small, they are not good’; was it not on your own request that I reduced the size? And now you write (again), saying: “process half a mina (of wool) more in your textiles”. Well, I have done it.”
I've been reading about origins of money and so came across reference to clay tablet writings by Syrian traders. Most of them are about mundane day-to-day life as you say but it's fascinating to just learn about life from days long past and forgotten. What's also interesting, to me, is the matters they bring up don't strike as alien but in fact can be related to by anyone even to this day. For instance this passage, taken from a paper[1]:
“As to the textiles about which you wrote to me in the following terms: “they are (too) small, they are not good’; was it not on your own request that I reduced the size? And now you write (again), saying: “process half a mina (of wool) more in your textiles”. Well, I have done it.”
[1] https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00642827/document