The Origins of Social Media in the Arabian Peninsula by Liane Al Ghusain, Image 4

Image provided by Robert Kluijver for the Modern Dilmun section of his Spring 2014 FIND Fellowship project, the Museum of Contemporary Ancient Arabia. This image is part of a project he commissioned from artist Laine Al Ghusain titled "The Origins of Social Media in the Arabian Peninsula."

Caption: Letter from Nanni to EaNasir, a Dilmun merchant based in Ur (Mesopotamia) dealing in copper ingots from Magan (Oman). Clay tablet, 1750 BC, 12 x 5 x 3 cm. It reads:
“Now when you had come you spoke saying thus: 'I will give good ingots to Gimil-Sin.' This you said to me when you had come, but you have not done it. You have offered bad ingots to my messenger, saying 'if you will take it take it, if you will not take it go away.' Who am I that you are treating me in this manner, treating me with such contempt, and that between gentlemen such as we are! I have written to you to receive my purse, but you have neglected it. Who is there among the Dilmun traders who have acted against me in this way?”