--- In cybalist@..., markodegard@... wrote:.> Look again,
particularly at the pole in the front/top, and the yoke.
> It's a *wagon* showing where paired oxen would be hooked up.
> > Those are wheels, and not logs. The artistic convention is
primitive, > 'child-like', showing the wheels on end. Only someone
who had been > taught perspective, and how to draw a cylinder, would
do 'logs' this > way.
I looked again. The 'pole' looks like a 'child-like' corn-cob or
early shoot of barley or an upturned sledge front to me and the same
arguments about perspective apply here. In fact, there is a similar
sign -- Y with a divider in the upper register -- in 'Indus Script'
identified by Kenoyer (Feb. 1999) as the earliest evidence of writing
on a potsherd at Harappa or arguably, anywhere else for that matter?