Puzzle Description:

Indus script on a seal found near what was once a granary in Harappa, dating to before 2000 BC. When pressed into clay the impression would be reversed. Since the Indus script is read from right to left, the sign at the far right of the seal would in fact be the last sign of the inscription.

#1: Teresa K (fasstar) on Mar 3, 2010 [HINT]

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Here is the seal with the script:
http://www.harappa.com/indus2/133.html

Here is an interesting article published last year about how "Artificial Intelligence Cracks 4,000-Year-Old Mystery":
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/indusscript/

Keep them coming. Good job. The thing on the far right looks like corn.

Thanks, Adam.

Their crop signs are mostly with just one center stalk. The V shape and U shape signs usually signify containers, according to the historians. The Harappans were an agricultural community and they engaged in trade via the ports, so this interpretation makes sense if these seals were used to identify crops and containers for trade or shipping. One source thinks the "horns" on the U signify a cow, which would also make sense as the cow is/was sacred to the Harappans and many of their seals seem to have religious significance.

ditto #3. :)

Ditto #3 & 5. :-)

Found to be logically solvable by Gator.

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You are right, Gator. Thanks.

What to do, what to do? Change "edge logic" to "smile logic" in my first comment? Then everyone will wonder what the heck your comment means. Or leave it? Oh heck, it the bigger scheme of things, it doesn't really matter. What's really important is working on my next puzzle. :-)

Interesting puzzle, the origins too.

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