Section List: Enclosure and Mouth

This section illustrates how the size of a symbol can change the meaning of a an Indus sign. The smaller mouth and the larger enclosure are incorporated into many other characters in the Indus script.

For image credits, please see below.



Image Credits:

Indus Script Signs with Numbers: Sign List of the Indus Script and List of Sign Variants: Iravatham Mahadevan, 1977: The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables: The Director General Archaeological Survey of India.

 

Indus Script Signs without Numbers: Lynn Fawcett, 2017 - 2023.