The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c6.53

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The few circular, flat, clay objects, sometimes bearing a stamped inscription, and in appearance not unlike Phoenician Tesserae, which have been yielded by the excavations, may be of later date. There are objects very similar in appearance from Susa, exhibited in the 'salle dite de Mastaba' of the Louvre. Another object apparently of late date is the fragment of a silver bar shown on Plate XXVII (No. 518). If the signs thereon are cuneiform of the 'nucleiform' variety, as they appear to be, it would seem that here we have a Babylonian export of comparatively late times. And this is about all the material we at present possess that can assist us in dating our texts.