I was going to say something rude but that’s actually that’s fascinating and I would genuinely love to hear more about mesopotamian writing methodology

Okay! It’s inscribed with a cube-shaped tool, as seen here.

So I throughly enjoyed this it’s delightful, but also I have a suggestion: Cuneiform ASMR

What’s really cool is that there were schools called Edubbas (although later on they were less schools and more just Some Dude’s house.) where young scribes-in-training would practice their craft by writing signs over and over again on a single tablet, (if you don’t cook the clay you can wipe it clean and reuse it) transcribing poetry, etc. and it turns out school really hasn’t changed in 4,000 years - There was homework, recesses, (overseen by a lukisallu, or “yard man”) there’s literature depicting parents scolding their kids for skipping class to mess around downtown with their friends, there’s tablets that seem to have been written by students struggling with dyslexia - but the coolest thing to me is this:

A bored student, thousands of years ago, decided to pass the time by doodling a fish on the back of their worksheet. It’s such a little thing but it’s just so incredibly cool to me that I can see the work of someone who lived so long ago and just think “same”.

Disclaimer: Most of this info came from the book “Reading and Writing in Ancient Babylon” by Dominique Charpin which I read years ago, so some of this information might be out-of-date and/or misremembered.

Sorry for rambling, you just activated a really big dormant hyperfixation of mine.

Oh my gosh this is unbelievably lovely