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Kohl's note ibid., xix. 24 The unique T-shaped seal H-165 may also be of NE Iranian origin. 25 Cf. Marielle Santoni, Sibri and the South Cemetery of Mehrgarh: third millennium connections between the northern Kachi Plain (Pakistan) and Central Asia, in: Bridget Allchin (ed.), South Asian Archaeology 1981, Cambridge 1984, 57; I.S. Masimov, Novye nakhodki pecatey epokhi bronzy c nizovie Murgaba, Sovetskaya Arkheologiya 1981: 2, 132-150. 26 The dating of the Indus civilization continues to be a controversial issue. Based on the Near Eastern contacts evidenced by the Indus seals and by cuneiform references to sea-borne contacts with the far-off country of Meluḫḫa since the times of Sargon the Great (c. 2350 B.C.), as well as radiocarbon dates, the time bracket for the mature urban phase is conventionally placed between 2550/2300 and 2000/1700 B.C. Cf. Bridget and Raymond Allchin, The rise of civilization in India and Pakistan, Cambridge 1982; D.P. Agrawal, The archaeology of India, Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series 46, London 1982. 27 Cf. McGuire Gibson and Robert D. Biggs (eds.), Seals and Sealing in the Ancient Near East, Bibliotheca Mesopotamica 6, Malibu 1977. 28 See S.R. Rao, Lothal: A Harappan port town (1955-62), Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India 78, Vol. I, New Delhi 1979, 111-114. 29 Cf. E. Fiandra and P. Ferioli, A proposal for a multi-stage approach to research on clay sealings in protohistorical administrative procedures, in: B. Allchin (ed.), South Asian Archaeology 1981, Cambridge 1984, 124-127, with further literature. Ute Franke-Vogt (Freie Universität, Berlin) is preparing a doctoral thesis on the seals of Mohenjo-daro. Cf. also the forthcoming study of Paul Rissman referred to in fn. 84.