Image: Lynn Fawcett
Image: Lynn Fawcett

This is a pictograph of an adult person with two walking staffs. The two staffs are indicative of age and seniority. Hence, this Indus sign is the noun elder.


Illustrative Text Reference:

Harappa: Seal: H-517 a: Sayid Ghulam Mustafa Shah and Asko Parpola, 1991: Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions: Volume 2: Page 287: Collections in Pakistan: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia.


Image Credit:

Elder: Lynn Fawcett, 2019.