http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa17/P237990/html http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa17/P237990/html '[As to what you wrote]: "There are informers [...

http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa17/P237990/html http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa17/P237990/html '[As to what you wrote]: "There are informers [... to the king] and coming to his presence; if it is acceptable to the king, let me write and send my messages to the king on Aram[aic] parchment sheets" — why would you not write and send me messages in Akkadian? Really, the message which you write in it must be drawn up in this very manner — this is a fixed regulation!' Ironically, the reason we know about this message from the King of Assyria about how hell no he won't upgrade to parchment is because it was a message baked into GOOD OLD CLAY... "Clay. It's the future of the past." -- Assyrian Clay Council Marketing Blurb