The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s23.6

c10.s23.6

We have now to consider Nos. 5-7, 93-97, 146-148. In these cases 𐀁, 𐀀, 𐀇 are initial and there is no ground for assuming that their function is other than when followed by 𐀂. What then has become of the dative suffix? I take it that in these cases the sign following 𐀁, 𐀀, 𐀇 began with a vowel, and that in consequence the dative suffix was absorbed or elided; in other words that 𐀉, 𐀊, 𐀋, 𐀌 are closed syllables. In the case of 𐀌 this can be demonstrated (See analysis of Table XXIX).