The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s36.1

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The sequences indicate that the first five signs are all variants. The key sequence in this Table is RV . The form ℵ is interesting as being an exact approximation to the Brahmi form of the sign. The fifth form is perhaps the oldest. The sign is clearly the silhouette figures of a man. The sixth and seventh signs in Col. IV are probably the base form modified by the vowel ℐ. The eighth and ninth are probably pictographically independent. They have their exact parallels in Egyptian. But the sequence RV in texts 39 makes it possible that ℵ may be a variant of Å .¹ The tenth sign is probably, almost certainly, the base form modified by the vowel u. In view of what we have noted regarding the fluidity of the liquid vowels it is not surprising to find this sign in the same sequence as the sixth and seventh. The eleventh sign is probably a variant of the tenth. It is not probable that the position of the modifying vowel relative to the sign is pertinent in view of the evidence of texts 32, 33. If 𓀀 were bi and 𓀀 ib we should not expect an identity of sequence. The twelfth sign is probably the base form modified by ∧ = o.