The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables c4.s5.4

c4.s5.4

The official reports of the excavations at Mohenjo-daro, Harappa, Chanhu-daro and Lothal⁴⁴ have included photographs and very substantial and comprehensive descriptions of most of the seals and inscribed objects discovered. It must be noted, though, that the photographs of many duplicate inscriptions from Harappa (and a few from Mohenjo-daro) were omitted from the excavation reports, being replaced in the data tabulations by the short statement "similar to....". Objects in a bad state of preservation were also excluded. The reports of Mohenjo-daro and Harappa further comprise sign lists which record occurrences of the individual pictograms. The sign lists are valuable, even include a few unpublished texts, but are not always accurate and are limited to a portion of the material *ancient scripts and writings*, transl. by Mervyn Savill, London 1961, 1973; E.W.J. Barber, *Archaeological decipherment*, Princeton 1974; and Maurice Pope, *The story of decipherment*, London 1975.