S. Kalyanaraman
Book Description ISBN-13: 978-0982897188
Publication Date: April 3, 2013
Based on corpora of Indus writing and a dictionary, the book validates Aristotle’s insight on writing systems. Indus writing is composed using symbols of spoken words. The symbols are hieroglyphs of meluhha (mleccha) words spoken by artisans recording the repertoire of stone, mineral and metal workers. The writing results in a set of catalogs of metalworking of bronze age. Evidence of this competence in metallurgy which evolved from 4th millennium BCE of bronze age, is provided in corpora of metalware catalogs and a dictionary of melluhha (mleccha). Indus writing was a principal tool of economic administration for account-keeping by artisan and trader guilds and did not record literature or, history. Some sacred ideas and historical links across interaction areas between India and ancient Near East, may be inferred from the writing.
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Table of contents
Hieroglyphic method 7
4th millennium Indus writing pre-dates all known writing
9
Arsenical bronze and tin bronze 10
Tabernae montana as a hieroglyph 16
A seal made in Susa with Indus writing 23
Harappan control over the Oman Sea 34
Tepe yahya 50
Gulf type seals 51
Seals from failaka 59
Mesopotamian trade with dilmun, magan and meluhha
63
Oman and bahrain 65
Tablet of destiny: ancu, ‘iron’ (tocharian) amśu (vedic)
66
Meaning of the word, amśu used by Valmiki 69 Harosheth, kharoṣṭī
72
Harosheth, kharoṣṭī 82
Haifa: tin ingots from a shipwreck 93
Cyprus cylinder seals and bronze stand 97
Seal impression of Tell Umma 99
Indus seal with cuneiform inscription 99
Sea-faring merchants/artisans of Meluhha 100
Alik Tilmun, picture-writing Dilmunite traders 103
Tilmun, Telmun, Dilmun, the land of the famous red stone
104
Tepe Yahya, Susa 107
Hieroglyphs on Susa limestone vat 110
Hieroglyphs of Uruk trough 112
Susa: sacred fire-smithy 117
Bas-relief of spinner with hieroglyphs of Indus writing
121
Egyptian hieroglyphs 137
Uruk boat model, Mohenjo-daro boat on Indus writing
148
Metals trade catalog on a seal 153
Ligature, a technique used by scribes/artisans of the civilization
158
Steatite ornament of a smith, courier 160
Dotted circle glyph: context, vedi glyph, ivory artifacts
163
Tin ingots, forged alloys of smithy guild furnace account
164
Smithy 175
Indus writing on Mitathal seal 178
Indian sprachbund, meluhha (mleccha) words
179
Mould, to forge in copper smithy guild 183
Dholavira signboard 184
Two unique ligatured glyphs: professionals 186
Copper furnace account 188
Rim of jar as a hieroglyph 191
Antelope as a hieroglyph
193
Inscribed tablet as an evolution from Sumer token/bulla envelope system
196
Tablets as bullae 199
Functions of tablets and seals: an archeological context
201
Guild, entrustment account-book, courier, worker on a lathe
203
Mohenjo-daro guild standard tablet 203
Orthography of Standard device 206
Wing and eagle as hieroglyphs 234
Circular working platform as a workshop (anvil, smithy, forge)
242
Trough as a hieroglyph 243
Ingots 272
Gold 393
Fortified place 283
Alloyed metal, to engrave 284
Consecrated fire, kiln 286
Cauldron 290
Mould, to forge, iron worker, mine 292
Continuum of Indus script sign sequence on punch-marked coins
295
Conclusion 300
Concordance lists for epigraphs 301
Bibliography 544
About the author 550
About the book 551
Index & End Notes 552
A 180-page, companion document is an illustrated novel titled: Akkadian rising sun also published on April 3, 2013. http://tinyurl.com/braztyn ISBN-13: 978-0982897195 Sagan in search of Sarasvati ends up in Muztagh Ata and encounters Chinese guards guarding the treasure of ancu. There were other seekers of ancu before him. He ends up in a bizarre court case in America. He visits Disney World Animal kingdom and takes a ride on the Kali River rapids. As the waters splash over him, he finds a friend on the ride. That friend from Kidarankondan guides him through the story of about seven millennia of people in search of ancu which is called amsu in an old human document called the Rigveda. Sagan finds the alchemical formula for making gold from mineral rocks of Muztagh Ata.