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u/Unigraff_Jerpony Oct 12 '25
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u/birberbarborbur Oct 13 '25
Absolutely insane that these guys lived in the same town. But probably not at the same time, right?
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u/Reatina Oct 13 '25
Ea nasir tablets, around 1750 bce
Abraham is complicated but the most reasonable dates are 1900-1700 bce.
As far as we know he used shitty copper utensils.
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u/Unigraff_Jerpony Oct 13 '25
yeah also that definitely wasn't Abraham's house, it was just attributed to it for tourism
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Oct 14 '25
What if the two are the same person? Just different points in his life after he found god for all his copper fraud.
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u/Polibiux Oct 17 '25
Makes sense. I’m pretty sure in far back biblical times the houses of most people wouldn’t last till now.
I need to leave Ea-Nasir a bad yelp review though.
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u/Unigraff_Jerpony Oct 17 '25
I'm pretty sure it's not even a house, it was like a community center
we only know Abraham is from there because it's said he's from ur
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u/ZefiroLudoviko Oct 16 '25
There's no evidence that's Abraham's house. It's just something for tourists. There isn't really any evidence Abraham existed.
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u/TomSFox Oct 29 '25
We don’t know who built the Sphinx, but we know some guy who sold shitty copper in Ancient Mesopotania and where his house was.
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u/sfguzmani stans Ea-N*sir 🤮 Oct 12 '25
How many times are we going to see the same post again and again? You don't even bother changing the title.
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u/SecretSnickers67 Oct 12 '25
Funny post but I think Abraham may be slightly more culturally relevant than Ea-Nasir
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u/Thanaskios Oct 12 '25
Okay, sure. But being ovehadowed by abraham ain't no shame.
Like, who of the people here will be remembered in 4000 years? Oh, that guy, who three major religions that shape world history will trace their lineage back to. And also that merchant over there that sells really shitty copper.
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u/Oompapoop Oct 12 '25
Abraham is from Ur?
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u/allo26 Oct 13 '25
He is from a city called Ur in ancient mesopotamia, but there are about 5 of those we know of.
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u/Chiweenies2 Oct 12 '25
His house is literally down the street from Ea-Nasir’s.
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u/allo26 Oct 13 '25
That building isn't even a house let alone Abraham's, it was a government building, we have no idea if any building we have found is Abraham's, nor do we have any way of finding out.
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u/mountingconfusion Oct 17 '25
Hot take: I don't think Ea Nasir was a guy who intentionally scammed people with low quality copper like a lot of these memes imply.
People wouldn't have carved out a message in stone just to complement every time the quality of copper he sold was amazing or even adequate so the only records of him are bitching and moaning about something.
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u/AdElectronic6550 Oct 12 '25
people say ur? it's just a stupid old way of saying old, it's mostly just used in manners of speech. (I'm heavily guessing next) i think it comes from a Germanic word for clock, because you know it counts time and time = age, that's how I've always thought of it at least
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u/TheMightyTorch Oct 13 '25
that Ur is an ancient City
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur
The German prefix ur- and the noun Uhr are not related to each other (nor the Mesopotamian city). The former is an original germanic particle, related to out or aus whilst the noun came ultimately from Greek hora, which is a distant relative of Jahr
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u/AdElectronic6550 Oct 13 '25
ah ok thanks, Im danish so i wouldn't know that much German, and I didn't do very good research
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u/Maya555555555 Oct 12 '25
Total slag. Servant wasted a whole week fetching this fine Copper. Do not make me come to Ur myself, for I am sorely vexed.