The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables c4.s8.t2.23

c4.s8.t2.23

Round tablets in bas-relief often bear a square seal impression on one side and are flat on the other side. These round 'tablets' are placed at the beginning, because they might also be classed as seal impressions;77 they may have functioned as tokens of identification, or 'passports' of representatives of the seal owners. Since some of the other tablets in bas-relief, too, may have been produced with the help of seals, these round tablets have not been separated from the rest.