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SIGN RECORD / ICIT S720

A mark.
Many contexts.

Contextual only · literal meaning unresolved

opening slot

The five-slot model favors this functional role hypothesis. Its 62.0% model mass is a preference within the model, not a probability that an ancient meaning is correct.

3occurrences / 9,311 deduplicated tokens
#288frequency rank · ties by ID
30.02% of 12,910 analytic tokens
90.5%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 slot61.98%
quantity like7.49%
measure associated7.58%
core slot17.00%
closing slot5.95%
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

Artifact types

In the inscription

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

L-36 / line 1 ↗

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

ICIT / 720720opening slot · 72.8%90% set: opening slot / core slot / quantity like
ICIT / 405405measure associated · 42.4%90% set: measure associated / core slot / closing slot / quantity like
ICIT / 065065core slot · 80.3%90% set: core slot / measure associated / quantity like
ICIT / 060060core slot · 99.6%90% set: core slot
ICIT / 001001quantity like · 98.7%90% set: quantity like
ICIT / 003003quantity like · 99.0%90% set: quantity like
ICIT / 422422measure associated · 73.0%90% set: measure associated / closing slot
M-1267 / line 1 ↗

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

ICIT / 861861opening slot · 96.4%90% set: opening slot
ICIT / 002002quantity like · 99.6%90% set: quantity like
ICIT / 175175measure associated · 56.1%90% set: measure associated / core slot / quantity like
ICIT / 720720core slot · 60.3%90% set: core slot / closing slot / opening slot
ICIT / 740740closing slot · 64.4%90% set: closing slot / core slot / opening slot
ICIT / 001001quantity like · 90.6%90% set: quantity like
ICIT / 416416core slot · 39.5%90% set: core slot / measure associated / closing slot / quantity like

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