The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s1.14

c10.s1.14

(2) That 𝍖 is a suffixed element in name-formation is strongly suggested by a comparison of Tables I and LXVIII. It will be seen that 𝍘 like 𝍖 is normally final. Like 𝍖, if followed by any single sign, it is followed by 𝍙, 𝍚. Like 𝍖 it is preceded by well defined sign-groups that clearly constitute words. But, the three distinguishable words that precede 𝍘, viz., 𝍛, 𝍜, 𝍝, 𝍞, occurring as they do 26 times are never once found preceding 𝍖, while of all the many sign-groups found regularly preceding 𝍖 not one is found preceding ⌂. Are we to assume that all the men whose names ended in, say., Enlil, Nannar, -mansum, were leather workers, and all other men whatsoever were scribes? For that is the position to which we are reduced if we insist on regarding ⌙ and ⌂ as determinatives.