The Indus Civilization (Cambridge History of India, Supplementary Volume) c17.140

c17.140

These tiny seals have no knob or hole, and do not bear the "unicorn" or other major animals of the larger series. Most of them have a line of roughly scratched pictograms on one side and a symbol resembling VII, VIII, VIIII, IIV, IIIV, or IIIIV on the other. Occasionally a crocodile or a fish is shown, and, more rarely still, a goat or a hare, whilst four examples bear a "standard" or incense-burner of the kind associated with the "unicorn". Whether these distinctive little seals were related to other cultural variations is not recorded but is worth further investigation by careful digging.