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# The Indus Civilization c6.4

The Indus Civilization c6.4

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### [c6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mackay-1935.c6.4)

The fact that this image wears a robe ornamented with a sacred device, and that provision is made for a necklace precludes the possibility that it was intended for any human being, even a priest. The peculiar half-shut eyes have been thought by one authority to represent a state of yogi, or contemplation; but this may not be so, for very much the same kind of eye has been noticed in some very early clay figures from Kish and Ur.

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