/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>56969781
>Looked like maybe Lassen posted some stuff for us and got banned again. Wonder if it's the jannies taking him out on their own or if /pmg/ still doesn't understand him.

I was happy to see lassen active and posting his schizographics this morning, I really don't understand why he always gets b& n'shitc&.

I've done some preliminary digging into the info on the tablet and it seems that the "year when the throne of Rimmon (Ramman) was made" was the 20th year of Hammurabi's reign. Assuming the accuracy of the current understanding stating that he ruled from 1,792-1,750 BC the tablet would date to around 1,772 BC, wild eh?

Trying to get a handle on the potential significance of the Semitic names is rather more convoluted, but a name like "Ibi su abu su" = "His God is his Father" is pretty noteworthy. I highly doubt it, but it would be fascinating if this tablet records the sale of a whole proto-Hebrew clan's land holdings to that Balluti guy so they could go migrating with Abraham in search of their Promised Land. Far more likely to be a more mundane reason, but I bet a proper translation and analysis of the tablet would still be of interest to Old Testament biblical scholars trying to enhance their understanding of Babylonian Semites and their history.

>>56965538
>>56962696
>I expect it's something really cool just given the provenance. Can't wait to see what the catalog reveals.

Bros... I got the catalogue...

Upon reading entry #1 describing the Babylonian tablet my instinctive reaction was a resounding
>HO-LEE-FUK!!!

Read, then re-read pic related several times. Not only was this tablet 10.5 GBP, much more expensive than the 3 smaller and younger 5.25 and 7.5 GBP tablets (4th tablet on the next page), but it is quite larger and more complex too.

Its historical and religious significance is way better than I could have hoped, besides indeed being from the reign of the famed law-giver Hammurabi whose name alone would confer great value to any basic bitch receipt/contract for shipments of barley or the like, it seems to be a document dating to the dawn of the Abrahamic/Judaic faith and includes as witnesses to a significant land property transfer:
>"the names of several witnesses, some of which are *extremely important* as being very early Semitic names, at a period not long after the migration of Abram"

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Bros, I think I hit the jackpot. We all know how much rich billionaire Christians and Jews love to spend on ancient coins and antiquities relevant to the early history of Abrahamic Monotheism, so an artifact with the names of the primogenitors of the Tribes of Israel would be of *extreme* interest to those richfag collectors. It is completely legit too, having been on the market decades before the ~1970 cutoff as per the UNESCO convention on antiquities and cultural heritage, so is worth much more than the same tablet without such provenance. This $294 cheapie may well wind up paying off a good chunk or all of my debts and then some, feels like I'm dreaming frens this shit is astounding.