The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables c3.8

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This financial support has made it possible to carry out the work with dispatch. The project could enlist the services of Ms Erja Lahdenperä and Mr Jyrki Lyytikkä, two young photographers, as well as of Mrs Virpi Hämeen-Anttila. In 1984-85, with the kind assistance of the ASI, the Museums involved, and the Embassy of Finland in New Delhi, Ms Lahdenperä photographed 1378 Indus seals and inscriptions available in India. She also reproduced the old photographs of the Indus seals and inscriptions in the Sind and Punjab series of the ASI's photo archive. The double set of negatives taken is now deposited in the archives of the ASI and the Department of Asian and African Studies, University of Helsinki. In addition to publishing the present volume, one purpose of the Indo-Finnish collaboration in archaeology has been to establish in India and in Finland a comprehensive photo archive, which will enable researchers to get good prints of individual objects.