CIVILIZATION
INDUS VALLEY
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Question
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All the seals have pictures of animals with something written in a pictographic script (which is yet to be deciphered).
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A sunflower
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A tiger
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Detailed explanation-1: -Harappan scripts have not been deciphered yet.
Detailed explanation-2: -Every seal is engraved in a pictographic script which is yet to be deciphered. They all bear a great variety of motifs, most often of animals including those of the bull, with or without the hump, the elephant, tiger, goat and also monsters.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Harappan seal-tablets depict a number of animals, but eight are most common. Four of these are wild animals of the grasslands: rhinoceros, elephant, buffalo, and tiger. These are in a minority within the entire sample of seal-tablets. The other four animals are domesticates: goat, zebu (Fig.
Detailed explanation-4: -Seals were used to make a sealing, or positive imprint, like this modern resin one made from the original seal. Sealings were used in ancient times for trade. They would be made on ceramics or the clay tags used to seal the rope around bundles of goods.