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SIGN RECORD / ICIT S160

A mark.
Many contexts.

Contextual only · literal meaning unresolved

opening slot

The five-slot model favors this functional role hypothesis. Its 68.3% model mass is a preference within the model, not a probability that an ancient meaning is correct.

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3occurrences / 9,311 deduplicated tokens
#260frequency rank · ties by ID
30.02% of 12,910 analytic tokens
79.2%bootstrap stability / 24 refits

Where it appears

0 — 100%
beginning66.67%
2 of 3 non-solo occurrences
middle33.33%
1 of 3 non-solo occurrences
end0.00%
0 of 3 non-solo occurrences
0 solo occurrences excluded from positional rates. Exact strings deduplicated.

Five possible roles

0 — 100%
opening slot68.29%
quantity like7.72%
measure associated8.16%
core slot9.38%
closing slot6.44%
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

3 distinct artifacts across 3 recorded sites. Counts below are analytic lines containing this sign; repeated inscriptions remain included.

Sites

Dholavira1 lines

Mohenjo-daro1 lines

Qala'at al-Bahrain1 lines

Artifact types

SEAL:S2 lines

SEAL:C1 lines

In the inscription

First 3 matching analytic lines in catalogue order. These are examples, not a representative sample.

M-899 / line 1 ↗

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

ICIT / 363363opening slot · 84.5%90% set: opening slot / core slot
ICIT / 160160opening slot · 38.2%90% set: opening slot / core slot / closing slot / measure associated
ICIT / 154154closing slot · 82.6%90% set: closing slot / core slot
3863.1 / line 1 ↗

Qala'at al-Bahrain · SEAL:C · 1 occurrence(s) of this exact string

ICIT / 160160opening slot · 72.9%90% set: opening slot / core slot / closing slot
ICIT / 090090closing slot · 96.1%90% set: closing slot
ICIT / 055055core slot · 66.6%90% set: core slot / measure associated / closing slot
ICIT / 060060core slot · 99.8%90% set: core slot
ICIT / 190190core slot · 77.6%90% set: core slot / closing slot

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