The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s16: Analysis of Table XVII
The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s16
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Analysis of Table XVII
c10.s16.1
The shape of the first three signs in Col. IV and the evidence of the sequences makes it reasonably certain that these signs are simple variants of one another. The first is probably nearest to the original pictogram which doubtless portrayed a marsh, 1 (cf. our own conventional way of indicating a marsh in map-drawing ♨ ). The key sequence in this Table is 𓇋𓇋𓇋𓂋
c10.s16.2
² On the whole, combining the evidence of Plate I No 18, the signs 𐀀, 𐀀 (J. XLIX) and this table, I opine that the sign represents a table of offerings, and is of Egyptian origin. It will follow as a corollary that the Sumerian and Proto-Elamitic forms are Egyptian origin.