The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables c9.s5.8

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A computer-drawn concordance to the Indus inscriptions was published in 1973 by a group of Finnish scholars.⁴⁵ In the preparation of this work, Dr Asko Parpola visited the principal museums in Pakistan and India in 1971 in order to compare the readings based on the published photographs with the original objects. To his surprise he found more than 400 seals and inscriptions from Mohenjo-daro and Harappa that had never been published.⁴⁶ Most of them came from the digs carried out by the custodians of the site museums after the official excavations and reported only very briefly in the Annual Reports of the ASI.⁴⁷ (Fortunately, the unpublished fieldbooks of these as well as of the official excavations have since been discovered in Pakistan, and are in the process of being published.⁴⁸)