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Written by wicker boyfriend on 2025-01-15 at 20:34

Did several big tasks so it's frog weights time as a reward! The Bronze Age Mesopotamians created a standard weight system for trade going from really small weights to larger ones. This weight standard lasted for at least 3000 years across huge chunks of the globe. Standard ones looked like this:

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Written by wicker boyfriend on 2025-01-15 at 20:39

However people made really cute ones too! Frogs seem to be a pretty popular shape

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Written by wicker boyfriend on 2025-01-15 at 20:44

Here are some Egyptian ones

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Written by wicker boyfriend on 2025-01-15 at 20:48

There are a lot of ducks, too! They're super cute and you can see a lot more of the gradation of sizes here

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Written by wicker boyfriend on 2025-01-15 at 20:51

This kind of weight is absolutely how Nanni busted Ea-Nasir's shipment of bad copper for the Ea-Nasir fans out there, fun to think that whoever weighed them was using cute little frogs or duckies

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Written by wicker boyfriend on 2025-01-15 at 21:02

Kind of cool writeup here, apparently the weights increase in a modified Fibonacci sequence which is pretty cool

https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/hanging-in-the-balance-2/#:~:text=The%20most%20common%20weights%20used,more%20than%20roughly%20shaped%20stones.

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Written by Infinity Mme on 2025-01-15 at 20:53

@checkervest oh hell yes. I love and accept this idea. they're so cute!!

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Written by wicker boyfriend on 2025-01-15 at 20:55

@MmeLibertine I just love that there was absolutely no reason to make them cute and people did it anyway. Big serious merchants who did this for a living bought little ducks and frogs and other animals

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