I Can't Stop Cackling At This Relic That's Basically A Teen's Angry Note To His Mum
Mesopotamian boarding school student Iddin-Sin wrote this tablet to his mother, Zinu; it has been translated as follows:
“From year to year, the clothes of the young gentleman here become better. But my clothes get worse from year to year. Indeed, you persist in making my clothes poorer and more scanty at a time when, in our house, wool is used up like bread.
“You have made me poor clothes. The son of Adad-iddinam, whose father is only an assistant to my father, has two new sets of clothes while you fuss even about a single set of clothes for me.”
“In spite of the fact that you bore me, and his mother only adopted him, his mother loves him while you... you do not love me.”
More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_from_Iddin-Sin_to_Zinu
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