The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s34: Analysis of Table XLVII
The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s34
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Analysis of Table XLVII
c10.s34.1
The first two are clearly variants by their graphic resemblance. Cf. ๐ and ๐ . The fifth may be classed as a variant for the same reason, but with less assurance. The third may be a later and more conventionalised form by separating the horns (?) from the arms (?), straightening out the former, and amplifying the head (?). Morphographically there is a curious parallelism between ๐ and ๐ on the one hand and ๐ and ๐ on the other. If ๐ is ideographically a man, perhaps ๐ is a god or hero, the additional element being horns (cf. design on M.440). ๐ ๐ (cf. ๐ Table XLIX, No. 30) may be a man with legs together, and ๐ a divinity in similar posture.
c10.s34.2
๐ is clearly ๐ + ๐ , the vowel o.
c10.s34.3
The last sign in column IV is doubtfully a compound, as we have no sign ๐ elsewhere. It may be a modification by means of ๐ (see analysis of Table XXVI).