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SIGN RECORD / ICIT S157

A mark.
Many contexts.

Contextual only · literal meaning unresolved

closing slot

The five-slot model favors this functional role hypothesis. Its 43.9% model mass is a preference within the model, not a probability that an ancient meaning is correct.

2occurrences / 9,311 deduplicated tokens
#316frequency rank · ties by ID
20.02% of 12,910 analytic tokens
60.0%bootstrap stability / 24 refits

Where it appears

0 — 100%
beginning0.00%
0 of 2 non-solo occurrences
middle0.00%
0 of 2 non-solo occurrences
end100.00%
2 of 2 non-solo occurrences
0 solo occurrences excluded from positional rates. Exact strings deduplicated.

Five possible roles

0 — 100%
opening slot8.47%
quantity like6.43%
measure associated34.30%
core slot6.87%
closing slot43.93%
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.

No observed right neighbor.

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-328 / line 1 ↗

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

ICIT / 142142core slot · 61.6%90% set: core slot / opening slot / measure associated
ICIT / 157157closing slot · 71.9%90% set: closing slot / core slot / measure associated
M-1825 / line 1 ↗

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

ICIT / 705705core slot · 43.7%90% set: core slot / opening slot / quantity like
ICIT / 390390closing slot · 29.5%90% set: closing slot / quantity like / opening slot / measure associated / core slot
ICIT / 002002quantity like · 99.5%90% set: quantity like
ICIT / 031031quantity like · 98.6%90% set: quantity like
ICIT / 157157measure associated · 48.3%90% set: measure associated / closing slot / core slot

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