Terracotta tablet Ni 2461, light raking packed wedge-script, the left edge broken.

A morning

The same clay. The line about honey, found again one morning by someone still alive.

A morning

The Book of 42

Someone among the living found the line about honey one morning. The clay is older than the English count later given to it.

Sources
  1. Black, J. A., G. Cunningham, J. Ebeling, E. Flückiger-Hawker, E. Robson, J. Taylor, and G. Zólyomi. “A balbale to Inana for Šu-Suen (Šu-Suen B).” Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, t.2.4.4.2. Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.
  2. Makukha, Andriy. Photograph of Istanbul Ni 2461, 2017. Wikimedia Commons. CC0 1.0.
  3. “Tenderness,” English Full Reduction to 42. The Book of 42 cipher plate. Each letter folded to a single digit, then added. Calculation first. Meaning open. A correspondence, not a proof of Love.
  4. The Book of 42. Living chronicle of correspondences. Neighbor door. The number did not put honey on the clay.
  5. Neighbor door: The Meaning of Life.