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SIGN RECORD / ICIT S871

A mark.
Many contexts.

Contextual only · literal meaning unresolved

closing slot

The five-slot model favors this functional role hypothesis. Its 60.9% model mass is a preference within the model, not a probability that an ancient meaning is correct.

4occurrences / 9,311 deduplicated tokens
#248frequency rank · ties by ID
40.03% of 12,910 analytic tokens
70.8%bootstrap stability / 24 refits

Where it appears

0 — 100%
beginning25.00%
1 of 4 non-solo occurrences
middle25.00%
1 of 4 non-solo occurrences
end50.00%
2 of 4 non-solo occurrences
0 solo occurrences excluded from positional rates. Exact strings deduplicated.

Five possible roles

0 — 100%
opening slot14.94%
quantity like7.11%
measure associated9.52%
core slot7.49%
closing slot60.94%
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

4 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 4 matching analytic lines in catalogue order. These are examples, not a representative sample.

H-511 / line 1 ↗

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

ICIT / 871871closing slot · 45.1%90% set: closing slot / opening slot / core slot / quantity like
ICIT / 390390closing slot · 75.6%90% set: closing slot / core slot / measure associated
K-15 / line 1 ↗

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

ICIT / 947947opening slot · 74.5%90% set: opening slot / core slot / closing slot
ICIT / 871871closing slot · 78.0%90% set: closing slot / core slot
M-23 / line 1 ↗

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

ICIT / 368368core slot · 56.8%90% set: core slot / opening slot / quantity like
ICIT / 192192core slot · 76.4%90% set: core slot / closing slot / measure associated
ICIT / 871871closing slot · 89.3%90% set: closing slot / core slot
ICIT / 842842closing slot · 96.7%90% set: closing slot

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