After reviewing the picture, it's unclear whether that's supposed to be childbirth or maybe someone taking an epic dump.

Looks like she is crapping a beaver

shivashakti: After reviewing the picture, it's unclear whether that's supposed to be childbirth or maybe someone taking an epic dump.

It's the ancient version of "I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant"

This is the Facebook of 2700 years ago.

Status: Now with brand new baby girl, here is picture of me in labor.

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So they just pop a squat and let the baby fall to the ground?

In related news researchers have now found the oldest known republicans.

a bug got stuck in the clay.

Could be I'm delirious with a fever but the article said 2 images and I only see one.
NOT as bad as an article about an image without said image, but pretty close.
jeebus FARK has turned me picky, but yet more observent at the same time.

IAMTHEINTARWEBS: Could be I'm delirious with a fever but the article said 2 images and I only see one.
NOT as bad as an article about an image without said image, but pretty close.
jeebus FARK has turned me picky, but yet more observent at the same time.

The image they provided is cropped. A second, partial stamp is just to the right of the full impression you see in the article.

/Supervised excavation of this sherd.
//Not subby

shivashakti: After reviewing the picture, it's unclear whether that's supposed to be childbirth or maybe someone taking an epic dump.

Could be multiple things...

2700 years of people seeing images in inanimate objects?

At least they didn't say it was the Virgin Mary.

/saw nothing
//rohrshach would not be happy

Looks like an ANCIENT ALIEN

SoundOfOneHandWanking: /saw nothing

Do you see the letter M in the bottom half? The uprights on the outside are the woman's calves, the diagonals are the thighs, and the vertical drop is the baby (with a torso, neck, and finally head at the bottom near her feet). Above the M is the woman's torso, which goes up into a head. The head is facing right, towards an upraised arm.

That's what I think they're saying it is, at least.

It's really cool having a penis.

ComicBookGuy: It's really cool having a penis.

My penis is so cool, it wears a pair of Ray-Bans.

That is really interesting. Having studied History in college, I noticed how rare discussions of child birth or child rearing are in the discipline. It just never seemed like a focus of study regarding ancient peoples.