The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables c4.s6.11

c4.s6.11

The relatively few seals and clearly Harappan-type inscriptions from the Late Harappan period have been included in the Corpus, but Late Harappan graffiti have been excluded, with a few exceptions. These graffiti are short and appear to be just "pot-marks" rather than real writing. Still, they are potentially interesting to the student of the Indus script, even though not to the same extent as the Early Harappan pot-marks. The problem is their great number, coupled with the difficulties of drawing a line between Late Harappan and Post-Harappan and of finding the original potsherds. For these reasons we have decided not to reproduce the graffiti from Rangpur in this volume; these have been collected and published (only partially in photographs) by S.R. Rao.⁵⁵ Only the most elaborate Late Harappan "inscription" from Rangpur (Rgp-2) has been reproduced in this volume along with the one original sherd that could be traced (Rgp-1). The "Late Harappan inscriptions" from Machiala Mota,⁵⁶ the signs painted on Jorwe pottery from Daimabad,⁵⁷ and, among other things, the graffiti on red pottery from Ganeshwar⁵⁸ have been excluded for similar reasons.