Image: Iravatham Mahadevan
Image: Iravatham Mahadevan

This is a pictograph of a stepped shrine with seven storeys. Hence, it is the noun shrine.


Illustrative Text References:

Mohenjo-daro: Seal: M-1271 a: Sayid Ghulam Mustafa Shah and Asko Parpola, 1991: Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions: Volume 2: Page 161: Collections in Pakistan: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia.


Image Credit:

Indus Script Sign Number 4079: List of Sign Variants: Iravatham Mahadevan, 1977: The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables: The Director General Archaeological Survey of India.