The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s52: Analysis of Table LXVIII

c10.s52.1

In text No. 🗟 the initial sign is not to be taken as a variant of 🗠. Nevertheless the final position of 🗡 combined with its shape will justify us in assuming 🗡 to be a variant of 🗢. Pictographically it is explicable, if 🗢 be the human eye, as Sumerian analogy would lead us to suppose. Then the interior dot will represent the pupil of the eye. So then the first sign in Col. IV is to be taken as the fuller and older form. As already remarked, functionally 🗢 seems to correspond to 🗣. But the sequences commonest with 🗣 and 🗢 are mutually exclusive. So much so that if names ending in 𝕌 are of substantival composition like Jamna-dass, names ending in ⇧ may well be of completely different, say verbal, composition, like Untaš-gal.