The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables c4.s7.t3.1

c4.s7.t3.1

Many of the objects have two or more (up to six) sides with inscriptions, pictures or engravings of one kind or another. It is clear that all such sides had to be photographed and published. But the photography carried out for the Corpus was extended to comprise even the empty sides. This procedure made it possible to verify afterwards whether a given side of a specific object really is empty. Another reason for documenting all the sides of the objects was the need to check the excavation number (and often the museum number as well), which has usually been painted on the object.⁶²