Image: Iravatham Mahadevan
Image: Iravatham Mahadevan

This sign combines the basic container symbol with the Chinese character  cǎo 艸, meaning plants or grass. It is the noun basket or baskets.


Illustrative Text Reference:

Mohenjo-daro: Seal: M-1792 a: Asko Parpola, B. M. Pande, and Petteri Koskikallio, 2010: Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions: Volume 3,1: Page 51: New material, untraced objects, and collections outside India and Pakistan: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia


Image Credit:

Indus Script Sign Number 1060: List of Sign Variants: Iravatham Mahadevan, 1977: The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables: The Director General Archaeological Survey of India.