The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables c9.s3.7

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In addition to being found on the seals, iconographic motifs are found in particular on "tablets". An important general characteristic of this category of objects is that they comprise many identical duplicates. The incised "miniature tablets" from the lower levels of Harappa are the earliest known examples of the fully developed Indus script.31 Later, incised tablets give way to embossed ones, often massproduced in moulds. Sometimes great numbers of similar tablets (especially H-252 ff.) have been found together, or their find places are very close to each other. This has suggested that most of the tablets, both the embossed and the engraved ones, may have functioned as tokens of votive offerings or of visits to temples.32