The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables c4.s8.t1.2

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Ernest Mackay, in *Further Excavations at Mohenjo-daro*, arranged the objects coming from Mohenjo-daro according to the different areas of the site and the absolute depth of the finding place from the surface.⁶⁸ He wished to control the data from the point of view of archaeological distribution, looking for evolutionary and other trends. The result was chaotic: objects of different types and sizes were mixed with each other. Unless one knows the number of the object, it is impossible to locate it without scanning through the entire material. In the present Corpus, the archaeological context is taken into account in the arrangement of the objects when it is feasible and useful: thus the objects from the Late Harappan period from Lothal (graffiti only) and Chanhujo-daro (seals) are presented as a separate section at the end.