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Teenagers have been teenagers for thousands of years. About 4,000 years ago, a teenager in Mesopotamia faced a problem that is still remarkably easy to understand today: he was fed up with being embarrassed by the clothes he wore. His name was Iddin-Sin, and he decided to do something unexpected he wrote a letter to his mother, Zinu. He inscribed it on a clay tablet using the cuneiform script in the Akkadian language. While tablets from that era typically contain royal decrees, commercial records, or prayers to the gods, this particular tablet holds something far more mundane: a teenage son’s complaint to his mother for failing to send him new clothes. "Iddin-Sin sends the following message: May the gods Shamash, Marduk, and Ilabrat keep you in good health for my sake. Every year, the clothes worn by the young men here get better, yet you let mine get worse year after year. In truth, you persist in making my clothing poorer and scarcer. At a time when wool is consumed in our household as readily as bread, you have provided me with the clothes of a pauper!" (Apparently, his family was doing quite well.) The son of Adad-iddinam whose father is merely an assistant to my own father has two new sets of clothes, while you send only one for me. Even though you gave birth to me and his mother only adopted him, his mother loves him whereas you, you do not love me!" Iddin-Sin’s letter to Zinu is known by its technical designation, TCL 18 111. According to the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative, the text is inscribed on a tablet excavated in Larsa, which is now housed in the Louvre Museum in Paris, France.
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