The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c10.s9.3

c10.s9.3

With regard to the function of this sign, we shall observe that (a) it is frequently initial, (b) it is never final, (c) it normally precedes signs that can be shown to be prefixes (like the fish-group) or sign-groups that are in themselves whole words; e.g. in Nos. 9, 11, 34-38, 39, 46, 50. It is clearly then frequently a prefix¹, probably in every case except Nos. 41-45, when it appears to be the second element in the word [Figure: ].