M is for Marduk, that's good enough for me

January 5, 2016 7:58 AM

Cuneiform Cookies for the New Year
posted by moonmilk (23 comments total)

I want cookies of those tablets complaining about that shifty copper merchant.
posted by poffin boffin at 8:14 AM on January 5, 2016 [14 favorites]

Of course, if you eat the wrong passage, the gods will drown the world. But, you know, cookies!
posted by GenjiandProust at 8:20 AM on January 5, 2016 [4 favorites]

I love that this was done by hand, but now I want these people to make me a cuneiform rolling pin.
posted by Hermione Granger at 8:20 AM on January 5, 2016 [2 favorites]

The code of Hammurabi would be great the next time any of the lawyers I know have a party!
posted by TedW at 8:22 AM on January 5, 2016 [1 favorite]

The perfect dessert after a meal of Ashurbanipulled pork and Gilgamashed potatoes.
posted by GenjiandProust at 8:31 AM on January 5, 2016 [12 favorites]

Goes great with Rosetta Scones.
posted by phooky at 8:36 AM on January 5, 2016 [20 favorites]

Because NYC private schools are fully insane, Senior Son's fifth grade holiday bake sale last month required "Mesopotamia-themed" treats. Mrs. Bellman, being fully awesome, obliged with cupcakes. Green and blue, um, interpretations of the fertile crescent were created by Senior and Junior Sons. Cuneiform was created by Mrs. Bellman. Less authentic than the linked tablets, but so much tastier. Can you "win" a bake sale? Yes. Yes you can.
posted by The Bellman at 8:37 AM on January 5, 2016 [5 favorites]

And of course, this needs to be played while making and/or consuming them
posted by TedW at 8:46 AM on January 5, 2016 [1 favorite]

I wouldn't be surprised if cakes or flatbreads with cuneiform on them were eaten on occasion, for folk-magic purposes.
posted by Countess Elena at 8:52 AM on January 5, 2016

All washed down with a nice Tiglath Pilsner?
posted by Devonian at 9:05 AM on January 5, 2016 [8 favorites]

I want cookies of those tablets complaining about that shifty copper merchant.

I want cookies of those non extant tablets allowing the poor maligned copper merchant to finally rebut those slanderous accusations.

Cuneiform composition excercises, complete with wood-fired ceramic record, may be the final straw in convincing me to learn cuneiform (which has always played at the back of my mind).
posted by eclectist at 9:11 AM on January 5, 2016

Ha! I literally just came to this tab from this page: Behistun Inscription
posted by symbioid at 9:42 AM on January 5, 2016

Personally I enjoy Ereshkuegel with lots of cInannamon sugar.
posted by prize bull octorok at 9:47 AM on January 5, 2016 [3 favorites]

Marduk desires not the barren wasteland of your desiccated viscera.
posted by duffell at 10:02 AM on January 5, 2016 [1 favorite]

Sorry, I mean, Marduk totally rules.
posted by duffell at 10:02 AM on January 5, 2016 [1 favorite]

I want Marduk the sun god in me! ME ME ME ME!!!
posted by symbioid at 10:05 AM on January 5, 2016 [2 favorites]

I had rolling pins laser cut for me (haunted mansion wallpaper) and they are awesome. Seriously awesome. You could totally do this.
posted by Sophie1 at 10:37 AM on January 5, 2016

I can't cook at all, but this would be an amazing entry in our annual Edible Books competition.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 11:01 AM on January 5, 2016 [1 favorite]

Because NYC private schools are fully insane, Senior Son's fifth grade holiday bake sale last month required "Mesopotamia-themed" treats.

Seriously? I would straight up murder the Bake Sale Committee Chairperson who came up with such a profoundly stupid idea. Murder them and dry out their bones and use them for decorative femur mirror frames and scapula bookends and teeny little metacarpal earrings and post it all to Pinterest.
posted by Daily Alice at 12:57 PM on January 5, 2016 [2 favorites]

Did anyone do up the Mesopotamia theme bake sale goods in references to our recent military entanglements? Looted art, relief rations?
posted by clew at 8:18 PM on January 5, 2016

tablets complaining about that shifty copper merchant

Or maybe the poorly written one asking for the King to send a proper scribe?
posted by Panjandrum at 8:09 AM on January 6, 2016

I worked a private school where the junior high teacher came up with a math learning program based on Mesopotamian culture. He was marketing it and maybe he has gotten this far. The students made a model of their city and learned math from commerce and so forth.

I love the cuneiform cookies. Great post.
posted by Oyéah at 10:24 AM on January 6, 2016 [1 favorite]

Nifty! Better music for these would be the Gilgamesh Epic in Sumerian (with appropriate tablets) or perhaps Hurrian Hymn #6.
posted by Autumn Leaf at 4:15 PM on January 6, 2016