The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables c4.s8.t1.4

c4.s8.t1.4

The aim of the classification must be efficiency in placing and locating any given object within the whole. The type of the object, form, material, iconographic motif, size, style and state of preservation have been chosen as parameters in the Corpus, in this order. A solution of this kind, which makes a neat layout possible, was followed by Sir John Marshall in *Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Civilization* and, less successfully, by M.S. Vats in *Excavations at Harappa*.