The Harappan Civilization and its Writing: A Model for the Decipherment of the Indus Script
Language: English
Published by E.J. Brill, 1992
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1992, viii 240pp, cloth binding with dust jacket, in near fine condition. Pictures on request.
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- Title
- The Harappan Civilization and its Writing: A Model for the Decipherment of the Indus Script
- Author
- FAIRSERVIS, Walter A.
- Publisher
- E.J. Brill
- Publication year
- 1992
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 9004090665
- ISBN 13
- 9789004090668
The book describes in detail what this methodology is and applies it to the writing. Over 4,000 inscriptions were studied from which a compilation of these signs used in the script writing, identification of each of the 419 signs involved, and their probable representation of words and sounds in the Harappan language, was made possible.
The book furnishes a model which can be tested. Sign identification lists, possible translations and a beginning of a grammar are included. The motifs associated with the writing are also studied and that relationship analyzed. The consequence of this understanding of the writing and the motif coupled with the already known archaeological evidence is the restoration of ancient life as it was lived in the Western part of the Indian Subcontinent in the 3rd Millennium B.C. While not a claim for decipherment, the model may yet be the most advanced step for decipherment yet taken.
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