melannen | 100 days of enemy recs: 59. Ea-Nasir

The thing about the famous Complaint Tablet to Ea-Nasir is not just that we have, preserved, a nearly 4000-year-old customer complaint that reads exactly like a modern one, it isn't even that it wasn't the only one one found in the man's house, it's that most clay tablets were not intended to be archived, and they were difficult to store in large numbers, so the only reason we have a library of letters sent by angry customers to a copper merchant in Ur 4,000 years ago is that he went to a serious amount of trouble to preserve them for posterity.

So I feel like, honestly, he would have been delighted to learn that he and his disgruntled customers have, 4000 years later, become a global in-joke.

A Scam Artist in Ur (1109 words) by MarlynnOfMany
Fandom: Ea-nasir - Fandom
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ea-Nasir (Mesopotamian), Nanni (Mesopotamian), Arshaka (Mesopotamian)
Additional Tags: Ancient Sumerian Customer Complaints, Con Artists

Ea-Nasir makes a lot of people angry, and gets cursed for his trouble.

Pay me Baby, Treat me Right. (1803 words) by tricatular
Fandom: Ea-nasir Tablet RPF
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ea-nasir/Nanni

Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Ancient Sumerian Customer Complaints

An angry customer gets a different kind of satisfaction than he asked for.

everything you say has water under it (1683 words) by tricatular
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Ea-nasir Tablet RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ea-nasir/Nanni
Characters: Nanni (Ea-nasir Tablet RPF), Ea-nasir (Ea-nasir Tablet RPF)
Additional Tags: Yuletide Treat, Epistolary, POV Outsider

An archeaologist realizes that sometimes, copper ingots aren't just copper ingots.