The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s36.4

c10.s36.4

With regard to the next two signs in Col. IV, the second is but the first reversed, and this reversal is due to the reverse of text 48 being read boustrophedon from left to right. Is the sign 𓀀𓁹 to be read as 𓁹 ligatured to its determination, or as a phonetic compound standing for 𓀀𓁹, or as an ideographic compound? Against the first it may be argued that 𓀀 is never followed by 𓁹, while its 'compounds' are so found on four occasions - texts 46, 58, 64, 85. The same evidence is opposed to regarding it as a phonetic compound.