Seals

Questions about ancient Indus seals and tablets (including inscriptions, iconographic depictions).

10. How common is the Yogi figure (possibly a proto-shiva figure) across the various Indus sites?

Richard H. Meadow

Shereen Ratnagar

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42. What is current thinking on the female diety with outstretched arms in the ancient Indus, Egyptian and Mesopotamian cultures?

Iravatham Mahadevan

Richard H. Meadow

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43. How does the dolphin appear in Indus iconography?

Richard H. Meadow

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49. One unicorn horn or two?

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3. Can we see a close-up of the "trident and bun" seal fragment?

Richard H. Meadow

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93. Why do some people call Harappan civilization the "steatite civilization"?

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer

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72. Were seals also used as art objects and were they influenced by Sumerian seals?

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73. Are all the images of Indus seals available on the web for free download?

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