![]() ʻ a kind of cooking pot ʼ, ṭrāmiṛī ʻ sunburnt, red with anger ʼ, f. tāmrā ʻ copper - coloured (of pigeons) ʼ - with - ḍa - : S. lām ʻ copper, piece of bad pine - wood (< ʻ *red wood ʼ?) Phal. trāmba - ʻ red ʼ (in trāmba - lac̣uk ʻ raspberry ʼ NTS xii 192) Bshk. (Sanskrit) tāmrá ʻ dark red, copper - coloured ʼ VS., n. There is a possibility that the palm tree hieroglyph was also called: Hieroglyph: tamar ‘palm’ (Hebrew) Rebus: tamba ‘copper’ (Santali) tamra id. The palm tree signified on the Mohenjo-daro prism tablet is, in rebus hieroglyph: tāṛ, tāla 'palm tree'. The oxhide ingot was called ḍhāla 'large ingot' in Prakrtam of Indian sprachbundn. This Indus Script inscription on this tablet - in three parts - has been deciphered. ![]() It is easy to see the link with these findings in Ancient America with the oxhide ingots signified on a Mohenjo-daro prism tablet. Andy White details the 'oxhide ingot' of Lake Gogebic, Michigan. Wakefield has posted a note) discussing the finds of oxhide ingots in ancient America. I came across two sites URLs given below (Andy White anthropology and where Jay S. Addendum to: Indus Script on Mohenjo-daro prism tablet signifies a boat with ox-hide ingots & tāṛ, tāla 'palm tree' rebus: ḍhāla 'large ingot' The archaeometallurgical journey into the ancient world of oxhide ingots is fascinating indeed.
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