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The largest number of inscribed objects are from Mohenjo-daro (Marshall, 1931; Mackay, 1938) and Harappa (Vats, 1940), where respectively 1540 and 985 inscribed objects in various media have been found, LOTHAL (Rao, 1961a and b; 1963; 1973; *IAR 1954-5* onwards), KALIBANGAN (*IAR 1960-1* onwards, Lal, 1962; Lal and Thapar, 1967) and Chanhu-daro (Mackay, 1943), where respectively 165 and 99 and 66 inscribed objects (Mahadevan, 1977, pp. 5-7 for further details) have been found, while 34 inscribed objects have been found at other Harappa sites like ALAMGIRPUR, BANAWALI, SURKOTADA (*IAR 1971-2*), etc., and 17 from sites in w. Asia (Mahadevan, 1977, pp. 6-7).