Posted on 04/07/2010 8:03:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A fragmentary pottery inscription was found during excavations conducted by the Thai Fine Arts at Phu Khao Thong in Thailand about three years ago... The discovery of a Tamil-Brahmi pottery inscription of about the second century CE at the same site was reported earlier... One can presume that the present inscription is also from the Tamil country and belongs approximately to the same period. The two characters incised on the pottery now reported are not in the Brahmi script. They appear to be graffiti symbols of the type seen on the South Indian megalithic pottery of the Iron Age-Early Historical Period (second century BCE to third century CE)... What makes the discovery exciting is that the two symbols on the pottery resemble the Indus script, and even the sequence of the pair can be found in the Indus texts, especially those from Harappa... Professor B.B. Lal, former Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India, showed that these Indus signs have a remarkable resemblance to the megalithic symbol occurring at Sanur, near Tindivanam, and elsewhere in Tamil Nadu... The symbol on the Thai pottery resembles a diamond. It occurs in the Indus script in diamond or oval forms... What is extraordinary about the present find is the occurrence of the two symbols on the pottery in the same sequence as found in the Indus texts
(Excerpt) Read more at hindu.com ...
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Possibly the Harappans and early Thais were trading partners;Indus-type seals have been found both north and west of the Indus sites.
Harappan beads can be identified as to location of manufacture (that’s someone’s idea of a dream job, right there), and have been used to track trade routes all over Asia. They got around. The Sumerians’ own origin tales involve arrival by sea (in what is today the Persian Gulf or to some Shatt al Arab); the names they used for most of their great cities and the rivers are not Sumerian names, meaning they were borrowed from whomever lived there before the Sumerians took over. They had seagoing trade networks, and I would probably not be the first to suggest they came from the Indus Valley.
“...I would probably not be the first to suggest they came from the Indus Valley.”
Interesting notion; yes, that would explain a lot and certainly make the Harappans even greater than they have seemed as the result of initial scrutinay.
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