memewhore:

I love the parallel silliness of “we know who this refers to because he’s the only Mesopotamian copper merchant we’ve ever heard of,” and “we associate this statue with a guy who almost certainly never had any statues made of him, because it’s the only statue from roughly that same time period that we’ve ever heard of”

…still makes me want to do some research and become a little more knowledgeable about Mesopotamian statues though. If not Mesopotamian copper merchants too.