[INDOLOGY] An article on information encoded in the Indus Valley seals

[Dominik Wujastyk]

This line of interpretation reminds me in a very general way of the
theory published
in 1988 <http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20802099> by our late colleague Prof.
B. V. Subbarayappa.



On Sun, 16 Aug 2020 at 12:45, James Hartzell via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear George et al
>
> Thanks very much for this article link. I have long thought that the
> 'seals' might be, largely, a type of coinage, and that the information on
> the seals largely of a finance-related nature for Indus valley commerce. As
> Mukhopadhyay susggests, the seals perhaps provide largely
> mathematical/commercial information about goods traded and the values of
> those goods, rather than language-related information per se.
>
> It would be very interesting to hear other list member views on
> Mukhopadhyay's proposal and discussion of the evidence.
>
> Cheers
> James
>
> On 9 Aug 2020, at 19:20, George Hart via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> 
> Those interested in the Indus Valley seals might like to read
> "Interrogating Indus inscriptions to unravel their mechanisms of meaning
> conveyance" by Bahata Ansumali Mukhopadhyay (
> https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0274-1). This author, a
> software developer, makes a strong case that the IV signs are logographic,
> not phonographic. It would seem that there is much information about the
> IVC to be found in the seals but that we may never be able to use them to
> discover what language their authors spoke. George Hart
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