A shopping list helps prevent people from coming home with their trolley and feeling frustratingly unsure if they’ve forgotten something.
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Cuneiform is one of the earliest types of writing; it’s called ‘wedge-shaped’ and is a logo-syllabic writing system.
Mehmet Ersoy, who’s the Minister for the Arts and Culture and Tourism in Turkey, said in a press release that archaeologists dug up a cuneiform tablet during restoration work at the old city of Alalah after an earthquake.
It was written in Akkadian, an extinct Eastern Semitic language, and the slab itself is from the 15th century BC.
Although modern shopping lists are usually associated with supermarkets, records show they didn’t exist around 3,500 years ago; an ancient list found in Turkey was instead for furniture.
It’s an official document detailing a huge amount of furniture purchases.
G’day, linguists are keepin’ a close eye on what’s written on the shopping list, and so far, they’ve found out that a bunch of timber tables, chairs and stools were bought, as well as who brought ’em and where they got ’em from, mate.
Minister Mehmet Ersoy, said: “We reckon this tablet, tipping the scales at 28 grams, will give us a new look at the rich cultural heritage of Anatolia for the next generation.”
As well as being quite heavy, the tablet measures 42mm x 35mm and has a thickness of 16mm.
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