[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [The Indus Civilization](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mackay-1935) › c8.38 # The Indus Civilization c8.38 The Indus Civilization c8.38 - **Language:** English ### [c8.38](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mackay-1935.c8.38) Certain thin pottery plaques, rectangular in shape with a perforated lug at one end, may have been intended for writing-tablets. They are of small size, ranging from four to seven inches in length, and were doubtless once covered with a smooth substance from which the writing could be washed, after the fashion of the wooden tablets still used in India. - [Previous: c8.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mackay-1935.c8.37) - [Next: c8.39](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mackay-1935.c8.39) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mackay-1935.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mackay-1935.c8.38](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.mackay-1935.c8.38) · Pramāṇa