The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s51: Analysis of Table LXVII

c10.s51.1

All the signs in Col. IV are clearly variants except the last two. These are clearly compounds of 🗝 + 🗞 The analogy of texts 16-18 shows that the compound is phonetic and is to be read 🗝 🗞 'king of the mountains' (?). I am at a loss to account for the reversal of the compound in text No. 20 as there can be no question here of a reversal of the direction of writing. It is perhaps a scribal error of shading the wrong triangle! It is the only case we have of a compound in which the elements appear reversed (except when the writing is also reversed).