Image: Iravatham Mahadevan
Image: Iravatham Mahadevan

This is a pictograph of a human lower limb. The limb is facing away from the reader. Hence, Mahadevan's sign number 1194 is an ideograph for the verb to depart.


Illustrative Text References:

Mohenjo-daro: Seal: M-168 a: Jagat Pati Joshi and Asko Parpola, 1987: Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions: Volume 1: Page 50: Collections in India: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia.

 

Mohenjo-daro: Seal: M-222 a: Jagat Pati Joshi and Asko Parpola, 1987: Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions: Volume 1: Page 56: Collections in India: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia.


Image Credit:

Indus Script Sign Number 1194: List of Sign Variants: Iravatham Mahadevan, 1977: The Indus Script: Texts, Concordance and Tables: The Director General Archaeological Survey of India.