The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s56: Analysis of Table LXXII
The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s56
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Analysis of Table LXXII
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The last four signs are almost certainly variants of each other. They are probably a phonetic modification of the first: since when followed by 𝕌 they alter its vowel to u. It is probable then that they are ☽ articulated with the vowel u or o.
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The sequence [symbol] R suggests that the first two signs in Col. IV may be variants. Since the first four signs are all initial and all represent birds (or a bird) they may all be variants. Regarding the next three no evidence is forthcoming from the sequences, except that the fifth and sixth are quasi-initial: and the seventh initial, though doubled. This would suggest that if indeed they are all variants they are to be read as ideograms. For since the dual is almost certain to be phonetically distinct from the singular its initial position as a phonogram would be coincidental, whereas if we read the sign ideographically it would be rational. An ideographic reading would also help to explain why, in a script so highly conventionalised, this sign has retained its pictographic aspect.
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The last sign is probably ideographically independent - a duck in a pond.
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Analysis of Table LXXIV.
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The evidence of the key sequence [symbol] R, [symbol] [symbol] R (see Table LVIII) shows that all the signs in Col. IV are simple variants. The last two forms, which are reversed, occur only in reversed writing. The first (or third ?) form may be regarded as earliest, [symbol] as latest.
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Analysis of Table LXXV.
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The two signs in Col. IV may be phonetically allied. Of. Analysis of Table LVI, and cf. also Col. IV of Table LV.
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Analysis of Table LXXVI.
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It is possible that the two signs in Col. IV may be related.