The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c6.39

c6.39

A cursory examination of the script of Mohenjodaro and Harappa will reveal that it is distinctive. It is neither Sumerian, nor any other known script, though it bears certain resemblances to several. Some of these are doubtless coincidental, since in the very nature of pictographic writing it is hardly possible to avoid some similarity in depicting the same object. A closer examination will establish that it is precisely the commoner signs of our texts that are the most distinctive - e.g. 𐀀 𐀁 𐀂