In this URL, Tom van Bakel presents a comparative perspective for the Indus script inscription on a cylinder seal MS 2645 Schoyen collection.
The Meluhha hieroglyphs on this inscription are:
Archer, boar, tiger, twelve (short linear strokes), pair of bows (intertwined), lid-of-pot ligatured to a body, arrow.
Rebus readings of the Meluhha hieroglyphs:
kamaḍha‘archer’ Rebus: kammaṭa ‘mint, coiner’
Rhinoceros/boar: baḍhia = a castrated boar, a hog (Santali) baḍhi ‘a caste who work both in iron and wood’ (Santali)baṟea ‘merchant’
kul ‘tiger’ (Santali); kōlu id. (Telugu) kōlupuli = Bengal tiger (Te.) कोल्हा [ kōlhā ] कोल्हें [kōlhēṃ] A jackal (Marathi) Rebus: kol, kolhe, ‘the koles, iron smelters speaking a language akin to that of Santals’ (Santali) kol ‘working in iron’ (Tamil)
baroṭi ‘twelve’ bhārata ‘a factitious alloy of copper, pewter, tin’ (Marathi)
kamaḍha‘bow’ Rebus: kammaṭa ‘mint, coiner’ PLUS (duplication) dula‘pair’ Rebus: dul‘cast metal’. Thus, together, the pair of 'bows' reads: dul kammaṭa ' metal casting mint'.
kānḍa ‘arrow’ (Sanskrit) Rebus:khānḍa ‘tools, pots and pans, metal-ware’. Rebus 2: kaṇḍ 'fire-altar' (Santali)
Ligatured 'fish' hieroglyphs are also read rebus:
ayo‘fish’ Rebus: aya‘iron’ ayas‘metal’
aya aḍaren (homonym: aduru)‘alloy native metal’
aya kāṇḍa ‘alloy metalware’aya kammaṭa.’coiner, mint alloy’
ayo ḍhālako ‘alloy metal ingot’
Tom van Bakel also presents a table of inscriptions which contain some of these hieroglyphs excerpted below:
One example of a Mohenjop-daro seal impression:
muka ‘ladle’ (Tamil)(DEDR 4887) Rebus: mū̃h ‘ingot’ (Santali) baṭa = rimless pot (Kannada) Rebus: baṭa = a kind of iron (G.) ) bhaṭa furnace (Gujarati) Thus, iron ingot. kolom ‘three’ Rebus: kolami ‘smithy, forge’ kānḍa ‘arrow’ (Sanskrit) Rebus:khānḍa ‘tools, pots and pans, metal-ware’. Rebus 2: kaṇḍ 'fire-altar' (Santali)
khareḍo = a currycomb (Gujarati) खरारा [ kharārā ] m ( H) A currycomb. 2 Currying a horse. (Marathi) Rebus: करडा [karaḍā] Hard from alloy--iron, silver &c. (Marathi) kharādī ‘ turner’ (Gujarati)Rebus: खरडणें kharaḍaṇēṃ to scrawl: also to jot or note down; to make brief memoranda: also to draw roughly; to plough roughly; to grind roughly &c. (Marathi)
Papers presenting an overview of the decipherment complement the readings of nearly 3,200 inscriptions detailed in Indus Script -- Meluhha metalwork hieroglyphs:
India, that is Bharat. Tracing republic roots in Sarasvati- Sindhu civilization and Indus Scriptmore
Bharat, name of a nation. Root: bharatiyo 'caster of metals', bharat 'metal alloy' in Indus Script more
Catalogs of pola, kuṇṭha, goṭa, bichi ferrous oxide metalwork in Meluhha Indus script hieroglyphs more
Catalogs of pola, kuṇṭha, goṭa, bichi ferrous oxide metalwork in Meluhha Indus script hieroglyphs more
ayas Vedic gloss in hieroglyph modifiers of Indus script, indicators of semantics of soma as a metallurgical processmore
Indus writing mlecchita vikalpa (Meluhha cipher)—6. Meluhha metallurgy, Tin Road trade & interaction narrativesmore
Indus writing mlecchita vikalpa (Meluhha cipher)—7. Interaction areas & Hermeneutics from Sarasvati-Sindhu (Hindu) civilizationmore
Indus wri$ng mlecchita vikalpa (Meluhha cipher)—4. kol 'alloy of 5 metals' pañcaloha in Meluhha hieroglyphsmore
Indus writing mlecchita vikalpa (Meluhha cipher)—2-- Semantics & orthography of svastika hieroglyphmore
Indus writing mlecchita vikalpa (Meluhha cipher)--1- Adoration of pattaṇī ʻferrymanʼ, paṭṭaṟai ‘guild’, kole.l ‘smithy, temple’more
Meluhha hieroglyphs & cuneiform writing systems on two soft-stone fragments of Ancient Near East (3rd millennium BCE)more
Locating Aratta of Ancient Near East using Meluhha hieroglyphs and defining Anzu & the start of Tin Road from Meluhhamore
Tin Road: Meluhha (Aratta) - Assur – Kanesh. What was traded and documented in writing in Bronze Age?more
S. Kalyanaraman
Sarasvati Research Center
October 17, 2014