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SIGN RECORD / ICIT S279

A mark.
Many contexts.

Contextual only · literal meaning unresolved

opening slot

The five-slot model favors this functional role hypothesis. Its 58.2% 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
#268frequency rank · ties by ID
30.02% of 12,910 analytic tokens
91.3%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 slot58.16%
quantity like8.31%
measure associated8.60%
core slot18.99%
closing slot5.94%
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 2 recorded sites. Counts below are analytic lines containing this sign; repeated inscriptions remain included.

Sites

Mohenjo-daro2 lines

Dholavira1 lines

Artifact types

SEAL:S3 lines

In the inscription

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

M-71 / line 1 ↗

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

ICIT / 095095opening slot · 55.0%90% set: opening slot / core slot / quantity like
ICIT / 390390quantity like · 34.0%90% set: quantity like / closing slot / opening slot / measure associated
ICIT / 002002quantity like · 97.4%90% set: quantity like
ICIT / 142142measure associated · 50.2%90% set: measure associated / core slot
ICIT / 279279core slot · 62.3%90% set: core slot / closing slot
ICIT / 151151closing slot · 99.6%90% set: closing slot
M-290 / line 1 ↗

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

ICIT / 279279opening slot · 74.8%90% set: opening slot / core slot
ICIT / 345345core slot · 33.4%90% set: core slot / opening slot / closing slot / measure associated
ICIT / 400400closing slot · 99.8%90% set: closing slot
4209.1 / line 1 ↗

Dholavira · SEAL:S · 1 occurrence(s) of this exact string

ICIT / 279279opening slot · 89.7%90% set: opening slot / core slot
ICIT / 629629opening slot · 54.0%90% set: opening slot / quantity like / core slot
ICIT / 002002quantity like · 99.0%90% set: quantity like
ICIT / 384384measure associated · 72.6%90% set: measure associated / core slot
ICIT / 740740closing slot · 77.2%90% set: closing slot / core slot

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