It is a wooden board siting large letters mostly written from the right to the left. 16 It is usually mentioned that if the Indus script indeed did represent something, it must have been for the elite. Previously an inscription with ten large size signs of Indus script was found here. The sign board is nothing but an "epitaph"(An inscription on a tombstone in memory of a dead person over his grave). Although the wooden surface decayed, the gypsum engravings remained. ==Historical sign board== One of the most significant discoveries at Dholavira was made in one of the side rooms of the northern gateway of the city. At some point of time the board fell down flat on its face. An inscription on stone, with three big Indus signs and possibly a fourth, has been found on the Harappan site of Dholavira in Gujarat. IX); each sign is 37 cm. The Dholavira Signboard is one such famous linguistic remnant of the time. Now,these days the world is such that we depend so much on internet that every word said we assume is true.Sometimes the information conveyed is time bound.Like while doing my research for Dholavira,in lot of websites its written that the stretch of road is very bad at times,so we were concerned if we would again bump into road similar to last stretch of Bhuj.Google map was showing … Signs and glyphs at Dholavira Inscriptions reveal that the writing was from right to left, so far the signs that stood for words and syllables have not been deciphered. high and 25 to 27 cm. Each sign is about 37 cm (15 in) high and the board on which letters were inscribed was about 3 m (9.8 ft) long. Dholavira (Kotda) on Kadir island, Kutch, Gujarat; 10 signs inscription found near the western chamber of the northern gate of the citadel high mound (Bisht, 1991: 81, Pl. I had the good fortune to visit Dholavira in 2013. You may know that billboards started in ancient India. Dholavira is a large archaeological site of the ancient Indus valley civilization, situated in the Kutch district of Gujarat in Western India. There was a ASI museum employee who showed us around as a guide. One of the most interesting and significant discoveries at Dholavira is the billboard found in the northern gateway of the city and is often called the “Dholavira Signboard”. The size of letters being big that could be viewed from a distance, and the width of the board matching with the width of the northern gateway of the Dholavira citadel, it is conjectured to be a large advertising board. Hence we got a pretty good walkabout of Dholavira. The Harappans had arranged and set pieces of gypsum (a kind of mineral) to form ten large letters on a big wooden board. The sign board at Dholavira … He said that upto 60-70% of Dholavira has deliberately been left undisturbed in the ground. The analysis of the symbols involved shows that this signboard has been written in the last phase of "Indus Valley civilization" and impact of Sanskrit words could be easily visualized. Most of the inscriptions are found on seals made of clay on which the seals were pressed as an impression. ... Another eye catchy moment was the sign-board that might be among the world’s first signboards, written in ancient Indus-script. The most interesting aspect of Dholavira is the inscriptions, mainly, ten large signs that are the first evidence of the written language. He told us he was part of the original ASI dig there in the 80s and 90s. Dholavira is located on the island of Khadir in the Kutch district which has the distinction of being the largest district of India. This sign board was hung on a wooden plank in front of a large stadium. wide and made of pieces of white crystalline rock; the signs were apparently inlaid in a wooden plank ca. 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