Image: Iravatham Mahadevan
Image: Iravatham Mahadevan

This symbol is a combination of the ideograph for the noun tent and a pictograph of some flames. An open-air fire that is associated with tents is a campfire.


Illustrative Text Reference:

Harappa: Tablet in bas-relief: H-766 A: Sayid Ghulam Mustafa Shah and Asko Parpola, 1991: Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions: Volume 2: Page 323: Collections in Pakistan: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia.

Comment:

There is only one extant example of this Indus sign.


Image Credit:

Indus Script Sign Number 4359: List of Sign Variants: Iravatham Mahadevan, 1977: The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables: The Director General Archaeological Survey of India.