Robert, I've heard of US flags that suddenly reveal swastikas, visible only for cameras, not for the naked eye, insinuated by a ruse to poor Dave Taylor. Evil is at work!

I'm not saying it's impossible, not at all. Good magicians and experienced scribes can do a lot, but Dave Taylor claimed that many GOP officials had been slipped such flags - and miraculously none of these steps up to corroborate the story!

Back to Sumer. The theory is tempting, but I'm not convinced. A "d" on beat 4 without proper stepwise progress would be irregular.

There must be scholars who have examined the MS with all its strange stains in many places.