The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s1.37

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by No. 385, where 𐍈 is found alone on each face of the prism (H. 77). While at Harappa I did not copy the design accompanying each of these 𐍈 in the blank portion of the prism, as I did not at that time appreciate its importance; I made a record in my notes however that the design was a figure like that shown on M. 440, facing right on face (a), left on face (b), and the figure of a woman (?) facing right on face (c). In the case of No. 4 (M. 24) the design on the reverse of the coin was too effaced to be distinguishable, while regarding No. 5 (M. 503) I observed one horn and a portion of an animal whose identity I could not determine. Now it has been shown above that 𐍈 and 𐍉 are allied sounds, and that in the case of the word 𐍈𐍊, 𐍈𐍊 they are undoubtedly variant pronunciations of one and the same word. I suggest then that in 𐍈𐍈, 𐍈𐍈 = 𐍈 and in 𐍈 of Nos. 4, 5, and 385 respectively we have the final element (suffix) of the word 𐍈𐍊, the 𐍊 portion being represented pictorially by the divine or heroic figure. In other words 𐍊 is the name of the figure in H. 77 and M. 440. If this is so, as what sort of a suffix are we to regard 𐍈? If the three seals are intended to give the owner's name, like all other seals, this name can hardly be Enlil-la-ge or Enlil-ra but only warad-enlil; or, to give a Hindu parallel which will be closer as preserving the order of the Proto-Indian, not Narayan-ka or Narayan-ko, but Narayan-Dass. In other words 𐍈 final is a suffix not in the sense of a grammatical suffix but as a suffixed element, 'servant' or the like, used in the formation of proper names.