The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s13.4

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to find a form 𓀀 as the base form of the sign in Col. IV. It is not however found. It almost certainly existed. Perhaps it dropped out, as many of the Sumerian signs of the Jemdet Nasr period dropped out, its place being taken by another symbol with the same phonetic value. It is not improbable that in 𓀁 (see above) we have a modification of this lost base-form.¹ For it is significant that 𓀁 is preceded by a solitary 𓀂 and forms part of a word ending with 𓀃. Neither of these features can be found with any other modified form of 𓀄. It is probable then that it is not a modified form of 𓀄 which leaves the way clear for considering it a modification of 𓀅. That is all we can say at present.