The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s53.1

c10.s53.1

That ⇧ is ideographically distinct from either ⇪ or ⇡ is suggested by its appearance in the texts doubled. Doubling is a marked and distinctive feature of certain signs (cf. Table XCIII), while other signs seem to be at pains to avoid it (cf. Table XIII). It is probably in origin an ideographic representation of the dual number of a word, and was later used for any word that was a homophone thereof. Now ⇪ and ⇡ are not found doubled.