The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s28.3

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Table XXXVI, No. 88 is very interesting; it shows that ‖ written in the middle of the line can be substituted for ‖ and is thereby sharply differentiated from ‖ the vowel. The vowel ‖ and the sign ‖ are distinct in the script, and it is perhaps scribal carelessness, or perhaps a survival of the era before their differentiation, that accounts for both occasionally appearing as ‖. They are however never found both written this way on one and the same text.