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March 24, 20260 citationsOpen Access

Structural Analysis of the Indus Valley Script: Positional Lock Architecture and Functional Decipherment Without Phonetic Assumptions — Priority Claim, Structural Ledger, and Interactive Seal Visualizer

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JMJuan Gabriel Molina

Key Points

  • The research aims to functionally decipher the Indus Valley script without relying on phonetic sounds or bilingual texts.
  • Analyzed 2,543 inscriptions using Mahadevan concordance sign numbering.
  • Identified functional assignments for 90.5% of all sign tokens across four structural layers.
  • Confirmed all five universal laws of structured information systems.
  • Utilized a repository of analytical tools, including a structural ledger and visualizer.
  • Achieved the highest Zipf's law value (R2=0.9901) confirmed for any ancient script in cross-corpus analysis.
  • Falsified the non-linguistic hypothesis from previous research.
  • Produced reproducible results accessible through the CISI corpus.

Abstract

Description: Public priority claim and supporting materials for a structural functional decipherment of the Indus Valley script. Analysis applied to the full CISI corpus (2,543 inscriptions, 11,280 tokens, 676 sign types, 31 sites) using Mahadevan concordance sign numbering. 90.5% of all sign tokens functionally assigned across four structural layers without phonetic assumptions and without a bilingual text. All five universal laws of structured information systems confirmed including Zipf R2=0.9901 — the highest value confirmed for any ancient script in the cross-corpus MM analysis. The non-linguistic hypothesis (Sproat 2004) is structurally falsified. Analytical methodology withheld pending peer review. All results reproducible from CISI corpus (yajnadevam/indus-website, GPL-3.0). Files included: (1) Structural Ledger — formula inventory, positional lock map, and four-row analytical ledger for 8 representative inscriptions; (2) Historical Record — public overview of the Indus Valley Civilization, the script, prior scholarship, and MM findings; (3) Interactive Visualizer (HTML) — animated seal analysis tool with sign grid, lock map, and structural readings for 15 representative seals.

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Juan Gabriel Molina (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69c22982aeb5a845df0d4119https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19167397
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