The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s36.5

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euphonic considerations. We may then regard it either as a true compound phonogram (a compound of two syllables to form a word unconnected in meaning with that of either of its syllables) or as a compound ideogram. In selecting between these we have to guide us only the analogy of the script from which the compound may have been borrowed, and the rationality of the compound from the ideographic point of view. We may compare the sign with Gardiner. E.g. p. 439, Nos. 36, 37, where it is an ideogram - 'brewer'. The element U in Proto-Indian may well have been a vessel¹, like the parallel element in its Egyptian fellow.