The Script of Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its Connection with Other Scripts c7.s1.95

c7.s1.95

It was noteworthy that at Mohenjodaro the inscriptions other than seals were practically confined to copper coins. At Harappa, however, while we have only one copper coin, we have a fairly large collection of inscribed receipts(?) Votive tablets(?). That they are not seals is shown both by the orientation of the signs and by the nature of the incisions. They are, for the more part, thin whitish slabs of limestone; very brittle, and less than 1/8th of an inch thick. It will be observed that, while they contain few signs that do not also occur at Mohenjodaro, there is a marked difference in the frequency of certain signs and sequences of signs. But if these objects are receipts it is not surprising that their legends should differ from those of the seals. In particular we may note the rarity of the final 𐀃 in these texts; the fact that nearly all these objects are worked on the reverse2 as well as the face; the appearance of new shapes of certain signs, e.g. the 𐀄 is frequently written 𐀅 . The objects are all flat3 as to both face and reverse.