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# An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c25.s4.5

An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c25.s4.5

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### [v1.c25.s4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c25.s4.5)

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).

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