The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables c4.s4.9

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But students of the Indus script must face these formidable difficulties and the pessimistic prognoses based on them. In fact, some more objective work has been done also. There has been serious discussion of the methodology, and essential research tools in the form of documentation and concordances have been created. On one point, at least, most scholars agree: the direction of writing usually is from right to left (but in the seal stamps, engraved in mirror image, from left to right); however, in some texts (particularly in the early tablets from Harappa) the direction of writing runs from left to right, and in a few texts alternatingly, boustrophedon.⁴¹