The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables c3.4

c3.4

With the financial assistance of UNESCO, granted through the CIPSH in 1978-80, it was possible to start preparing new photographs of the Indus seals and inscriptions for the Corpus and to reproduce old ones. In India, the work was co-ordinated by the Director General of the ASI, Shri B.K. Thapar. The photographers of the ASI, however, had many other duties, and the progress was slower than had been anticipated. In spite of the best efforts, only about 500 objects, approximately one third of the relevant material, were photographed by 1980. The actual number of photographs taken was much larger, however, because each side of every object was to be photographed. An impression of most of the objects was taken in plasticine, also. After the retirement of Shri B.K.