• no banana@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        The fact that someone went out of their way to forever commemorate his shitty copper tells me he’d probably be fucking pissed but hey, maybe he was a swindler and a clown.

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        7 months ago

        “People will be still talking about your shitty copper and what an asshole you are in 3,800 years.”

        “They mad, bro?”

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      7 months ago

      Today we think of plated items as being cheap. I believe that would be basically space age technology in ancient Babylon. I don’t think they had any electrical or chemical way of plating anything. Not only that, I bet you would need to use very pure copper to plate something.

      • NielsBohron@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        You’re absolutely right, if it was actually plating. However, given the contract was for copper ingots, I’d guess the poor quality copper was copper cast into an ingot shape around something worthless rather than what we would consider plating. It could also have been much more about impurities and ores left over from an incomplete smelting/refining process such that trying to hammer or cast the copper resulted in lots of worthless slag.