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SIGN RECORD / ICIT S316

A mark.
Many contexts.

Contextual only · literal meaning unresolved

opening slot

The five-slot model favors this functional role hypothesis. Its 47.8% model mass is a preference within the model, not a probability that an ancient meaning is correct.

2occurrences / 9,311 deduplicated tokens
#332frequency rank · ties by ID
20.02% of 12,910 analytic tokens
60.0%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 slot47.79%
quantity like18.55%
measure associated18.23%
core slot8.84%
closing slot6.58%
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 2 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.

H-1005 / line 1 ↗

Harappa · POT:T:g · 1 occurrence(s) of this exact string

ICIT / 316316opening slot · 78.3%90% set: opening slot / quantity like / core slot
ICIT / 323323opening slot · 47.0%90% set: opening slot / core slot / closing slot / measure associated
ICIT / 530530core slot · 70.2%90% set: core slot / closing slot / measure associated
ICIT / 748748closing slot · 82.9%90% set: closing slot / core slot
M-840 / line 1 ↗

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

ICIT / 374374opening slot · 83.4%90% set: opening slot / core slot
ICIT / 920920opening slot · 85.7%90% set: opening slot / core slot
ICIT / 001001quantity like · 98.7%90% set: quantity like
ICIT / 233233measure associated · 61.4%90% set: measure associated / core slot
ICIT / 705705core slot · 75.9%90% set: core slot / quantity like / opening slot / closing slot
ICIT / 033033quantity like · 96.2%90% set: quantity like
ICIT / 316316quantity like · 61.6%90% set: quantity like / measure associated / opening slot
ICIT / 032032quantity like · 91.3%90% set: quantity like

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