Indus Seals
editThe seals are symbol and figure,a word and a evidence.In order to understand the uses of writing in the harappan civilization,it is necessary to try to intrpret functions of the inscribed objects.Writing appears very frequently on the seals.Some of these were impressed onto small moist clay tablets known as sealings,probably by merchants to authenticate their bales of merchandise.The evidence of textile impressions on some sealings supports this interpretation.However ,more seals than sealings have been found .
Not only these,the scripts has also come into prominence.The scripts seems to have emerged in a fully evolved stste and does not any siginificant changes over time.This conclusion may however be the result ot the inadequacies of earlier excavations,which did not record the stratigraphic context of all objects making it difficult tp sort out earlier and later samples of writing.