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title: "Indus script: machine-readable seal catalogues from Mackay (1938) and Marshall (1931), with photo-coded text features and a reproducible analysis pipeline"
abstract: "Two hand-transcribed, machine-readable catalogues of Mohenjo-daro seals with find-spots and levels; text features coded from all thirteen of Mackay's seal plates; a held-out validated constraint set on Indus sign sequences; and a reproducible pipeline of genre- and size-matched structural comparisons against Sumerian, Egyptian, Aegean and proto-cuneiform corpora. Results are mainly negative and documented as such. No decipherment is offered."
authors:
  - family-names: Koshy
    given-names: Nitin Stephen
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2690-0588"
version: 0.2.5
doi: "10.5281/zenodo.22852769"
date-released: 2026-09-20
license:
  - MIT
  - CC-BY-4.0
license-url: "https://github.com/epachayan/indus-script/blob/main/LICENSE"
repository-code: "https://github.com/epachayan/indus-script"
type: dataset
keywords:
  - Indus script
  - Harappan script
  - Mohenjo-daro
  - undeciphered writing systems
  - seal inscriptions
  - archaeological data
  - negative results
references:
  - type: book
    title: "Further Excavations at Mohenjo-daro"
    authors: [{family-names: Mackay, given-names: "Ernest J. H."}]
    year: 1938
  - type: book
    title: "Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Civilization"
    authors: [{family-names: Marshall, given-names: John}]
    year: 1931