My wife has been speculating on it for the last few minutes. It’s an interesting question. The prints are in an unusual position, you see.
More than 4,000 years ago a dog stepped on this brick, and left his (or her) paw prints next to the royal message of King Ur-Nammu.
Ur #Iraq pic.twitter.com/aWrhDWk2Or— Ticia Verveer (@ticiaverveer) September 28, 2017
Front left paw, right rear paw, occurring sequentially in a normal walking gait.
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I have the Tracking skill at IQ-2.
…Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. So much for my King Sabala theory…
Knowing my dogs – what, a cat can’t have dogs? – one of King Ur-Nammu’s pack saw something edible across the room and .. didn’t let anything stand in the way.
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Mew
I’m not ruling out ancient message-clay trolls….