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CATALOGUE REPRESENTATION898Authentic glyph asset not available

SIGN RECORD / ICIT S898

A mark.
Many contexts.

Contextual only · literal meaning unresolved

opening slot

The five-slot model favors this functional role hypothesis. Its 48.1% model mass is a preference within the model, not a probability that an ancient meaning is correct.

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2occurrences / 9,311 deduplicated tokens
#385frequency rank · ties by ID
20.02% of 12,910 analytic tokens
61.9%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 slot48.11%
quantity like8.57%
measure associated12.60%
core slot12.65%
closing slot18.08%
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

Harappa1 lines

Mohenjo-daro1 lines

Artifact types

SEAL:S1 lines

TAB:B1 lines

In the inscription

First 2 matching analytic lines in catalogue order. These are examples, not a representative sample.

M-154 / line 2 ↗

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

ICIT / 898898opening slot · 84.7%90% set: opening slot / quantity like
ICIT / 257257quantity like · 55.4%90% set: quantity like / opening slot / core slot
ICIT / 002002quantity like · 99.1%90% set: quantity like
ICIT / 415415quantity like · 57.8%90% set: quantity like / measure associated / core slot
ICIT / 220220measure associated · 99.1%90% set: measure associated
ICIT / 520520closing slot · 99.8%90% set: closing slot

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