The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s49: Analysis of Table LXV
The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s49
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Analysis of Table LXV
c10.s49.1
The short interior strokes in the second and third signs of Col. IV seem to be significant since they are found side by side with the base form in M.133 and 227 (texts 2-5). We may assume that they are ⏁ with the vowel modified. The sequences in the two texts are really identical, since M.133 is to be read from left to right (see Analysis of M.133 in 'Direction of the Writing' p. 3b above). It is not probable that the modification by one or more strokes is material in this sign, since in No. 15 we have as many as four interior strokes. The sign in this case is clearly phonetically allied to the base form since it appears in the same sequence. Cf. text No. 11. The form ⏁ is but a defective form of ⏁ of which ⏁ is a mere graphic variant.
c10.s49.2
The last sign in Col. IV may be an earlier and fuller form of ⏁, or it may be a compound of it and ⌑.