"The use of these two objects is as yet uncertain, but I suggest that they were writing-tablets. It would, of course, be difficult to inscribe anything upon their present very rough surfaces but these may once have been covered with some smooth preparation that would allow of writing or numbers being washed off when finished with. In shape these objects are exactly like the large wooden writing-boards that are used at the present day by children in the Punjab and elsewhere."
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Further excavations at Mohenjo-Daro vol-I Text by Mackay, E.J.H.
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Ernest J. H. Mackay
Ernest John Henry Mackay (5 July 1880 – 2 October 1943) was a British archeologist from Bristol known for his excavations and studies of Mohenjo-daro and other sites belonging to the Indus Valley civilisation.
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