The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables c4.s8.t3.5

c4.s8.t3.5

An "animal group" consists of two or more natural animals appearing on one object, either separately or forming one scene like the two confronting bisons. "Joined animals" usually have more than one head (as do the three tigers joined into a rhomb in M-295 or the bison which, in addition to its own head, has the head of the 'unicorn' in M-298) or, while composed of two or more animals, may not be complete animals (for example, just the heads and necks of two 'unicorns' are joined with each other and a fig tree and a cult object in M-296).⁷⁹ The "composite animal", again, is a complete beast whose body parts belong to different animals.