Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.122

c12.122

One might reasonably suppose that the inscriptions on the seals represent personal names and perhaps titles, and there is no evidence to suggest a direct connexion between the device engraved on the seal and the legend, though on the little copper tablets there does appear, as a general rule, to be concordance between the animal represented and the group of signs accompanying it. There are no monumental or public inscriptions known in the Harappā civilization, no hint of anything which could be regarded as a business document, a private letter, an historical record or a literary composition. When bilingual inscriptions are found, and the script is eventually read by their means, it is unlikely that we shall learn much about the life and thought of the people: certainly there will be no new literature revealed.