Rongorongo 'tin'; taberna montana, tagaraka on Indus Script

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indicjournalists, Srinivasan Kalyanaraman

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Taberna montana glyph with its characteristic five petals, also

occurs

on a copper alloy axe clearly indicating its hieroglyptic use to

connote that the axe is made of a tin alloy. (See image at URL

below).

 

The glyph is also shown on an ivory comb of Tell Abraq and on many

Sarasvati civilization epigraphs. The code seems to have been

developed to clearly depict the property items and tools-of-trade of

lapidaries/metalsmiths and miners working with types of ores and

metals, including faience and stones such as lapis lazuli and

carnelian.

 

Shaft-hole axe with relief decoration (both sides). Copper alloy.

Southeastern Iran. C. late 3rd or early 2nd millennium BCE 6.5 in.

long, 1980.307 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. "However, the

combined problems of unknown provenance and unparalleled features

make

this attribution tentative. The symmetrical axe has a splaying blade,

an elliptical shaft hole with semicircular outline pierced by rivet

holes, and a fan-shaped butt. Both sides are ornamented with

low-relief figural decoration, cast as one with the axe. The features

of the figures were detailed by chasing that has been partially

obscured by corrosion. On one side is a male figure in a smiting

posture, with his left hand raised above his head holding a club and

his right leg extended and carrying the weight of his body. On the

butt is a three-petalled floral form with two leaves emerging from a

circular stem. On the other side are two registers: above is a

standing figure turning his head back and perhaps raising his left

hand in a plea for mercy; below, in front of a tree, is a bound,

kneeling prisoner, behind whom is the upper body of a victim falling

headfirst to the ground. The images on the axe, when both sides are

considered, suggest the commemoration of military victory… "[After

Fig. 7 in: Holly Pittman, 1984, Art of the Bronze Age: Southeastern

Iran, Western Central Asia, and the Indus Valley, New York, The

Metropolitan Museum of Art, pp. 29-30]. It appears that the axe has

embossed on it not a three-petalled, but a five-petalled flower,

possibly taberna montana, tagaraka. As a homonym, tagaraka connotes a

'tin' alloyed with copper to create the bronze axe. See also the

figure at Kalyanaraman, 2003, Sarasvati: Epigraphs (Book 7),

Bangalore, p. 159.

 

IndianCivilizationtagaraka.doc

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