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SIGN RECORD / ICIT S012

A mark.
Many contexts.

Contextual only · literal meaning unresolved

opening slot

The five-slot model favors this functional role hypothesis. Its 41.8% model mass is a preference within the model, not a probability that an ancient meaning is correct.

2occurrences / 9,311 deduplicated tokens
#297frequency rank · ties by ID
20.02% of 12,910 analytic tokens
66.7%bootstrap stability / 24 refits

Where it appears

0 — 100%
beginning50.00%
1 of 2 non-solo occurrences
middle50.00%
1 of 2 non-solo occurrences
end0.00%
0 of 2 non-solo occurrences
0 solo occurrences excluded from positional rates. Exact strings deduplicated.

Five possible roles

0 — 100%
opening slot41.75%
quantity like19.51%
measure associated19.98%
core slot12.08%
closing slot6.67%
Sign-level model mass, normalized to one. No gold-standard semantic labels exist.

All five alternatives are shown. The published 90% credible sets are occurrence-level; inspect the token records below rather than treating a sign-level score as a contextual credible set.

Common left neighbors

Adjacent pairs in deduplicated strings, normalized order.

Common right neighbors

Adjacent pairs in deduplicated strings, normalized order.

Across objects and sites

2 distinct artifacts across 1 recorded sites. Counts below are analytic lines containing this sign; repeated inscriptions remain included.

Sites

Artifact types

In the inscription

First 2 matching analytic lines in catalogue order. These are examples, not a representative sample.

M-1688 / line 1 ↗

Mohenjo-daro · SEAL:S · 1 occurrence(s) of this exact string

ICIT / 590590quantity like · 50.1%90% set: quantity like / opening slot
ICIT / 033033quantity like · 99.5%90% set: quantity like
ICIT / 455455quantity like · 83.8%90% set: quantity like / core slot
ICIT / 031031quantity like · 99.1%90% set: quantity like
ICIT / 012012quantity like · 67.9%90% set: quantity like / measure associated / opening slot
ICIT / 031031quantity like · 99.4%90% set: quantity like
ICIT / 220220measure associated · 99.8%90% set: measure associated
ICIT / 286286core slot · 70.6%90% set: core slot / closing slot / opening slot
ICIT / 002002quantity like · 93.1%90% set: quantity like
ICIT / 255255core slot · 68.5%90% set: core slot / measure associated
ICIT / 435435core slot · 91.8%90% set: core slot
ICIT / 125125core slot · 89.1%90% set: core slot / closing slot
M-1677 / line 1 ↗

Mohenjo-daro · SEAL:S · 1 occurrence(s) of this exact string

ICIT / 012012opening slot · 71.6%90% set: opening slot / quantity like / core slot
ICIT / 440440quantity like · 37.0%90% set: quantity like / core slot / opening slot
ICIT / 001001quantity like · 93.6%90% set: quantity like
ICIT / 820820opening slot · 96.6%90% set: opening slot
ICIT / 002002quantity like · 99.9%90% set: quantity like
ICIT / 032032quantity like · 99.4%90% set: quantity like
ICIT / 382382measure associated · 54.6%90% set: measure associated / core slot
ICIT / 520520closing slot · 99.8%90% set: closing slot

Source normalization, damaged records, rare signs, and researcher-defined priors limit interpretation. Methods and falsification tests ↗