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This is an addendum to: 

Itihāsa. With a large cache of Dilmun seals, Indus Script Corpora has grown to c. 30,000 insciptions of wealth-accounting ledgers https://tinyurl.com/y8rj5xpd

This monograph posits that Dilmun Meluhha metalsmiths and seafaring merchants were the first to introduce 1) an accounting system of खरड   kharaḍa  'wealth-accounting ledger' of metalwork transactions; and 2) to create a guild of armourers of an extensive civilization which stretched from Hanoi (Vietnam) to Haifa (Israel), from 4th millennium BCE..

A Dilmun Seal in Met Museum

Dilmun. Steatite or chlorite. 2nd m.BCE; 0.47 in. (1.19 cm) Accession Number 1987.96.22 The field symbol is dominated by a caprid. Caprid is a member of the goat family. A seal from Dholavira shows a kid which becomes the artistic model adopted as the Dilmun standard on hundreds of Persian Gulf seals. 

117 antelope/caprid; sun motif. Dholavira seal impression. arka 'sun' Rebus: araka, eraka 'copper, moltencast' PLUS करडूं karaḍū 'kid' Rebus: करडा Hard from alloy--iron, silver &c. Thus, together, the rebus message: hard alloy of copper. 

Hieroglyph: करडूं karaḍū 'kid' Rebus: खरड   kharaḍa f (खरडणें) A hurriedly written or drawn piece; a scrawl; a mere tracing or rude sketch. 2 Vehement reviling or abusing. v काढ g. of o. निघ g. of s. 3 The ashes and earth which gather about an ingot of metal during its formation. So called because to be detached they must be scraped off.; खरडणें   kharaḍaṇēṃ v c To scrape or rub off roughly: also to abrade or graze. 2 To rub up; to grub up; to root out (grass, weeds &c.) by pushing the instrument along. 3 To shave roughly, to scrape: also to write roughly, to scrawl: also to jot or note down; to make brief memoranda: also to draw roughly; to plough roughly; to grind roughly &c. &c.; खरडा   kharaḍā m (खरडणें) Scrapings (as from a culinary utensil). 2 Bruised or coarsely broken peppercorns &c.: a mass of bruised मेथ्या &c. 3 also खरडें n A scrawl; a memorandum-scrap; a foul, blotted, interlined piece of writing. 4 also खरडें n A rude sketch; a rough draught; a foul copy; a waste-book; a day-book; a note-book.  

The back of the Dilmun seals has three lines and dotted circles. These hieroglyphs signify smithy/forge of a smelter.

Circular seal, of steatite, from Bahrein, found at Lothal.A Stamp seal and its impression from the Harappan site of Lothal north of Bombay, of the type also found in the contemporary cultures of southern Iraq and the Persian Gulf Area. http://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/archaeology-in-india/

http://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/shipping-and-maritime-trade-of-the-indus-people/ baṭa 'six' rebus: baṭa 'iron' bhaṭa 'furnace'.PLUS  करडूं karaḍū 'kid' Rebus: खरड   kharaḍa  'wealth-accounting ledger', karaḍā करडा  'hard metal alloy'

117 antelope/caprid; sun motif. Dholavira seal impression. arka 'sun' Rebus: araka, eraka 'copper, moltencast' PLUS करडूं karaḍū 'kid' Rebus: karaḍā करडा Hard from alloy--iron, silver &c. Thus, together, the rebus message: hard alloy of copper..