THE JALALABAD INDUS SEAL ITS ICONOGRAPHY AND TEXT INTERPRETS THE LEPROSY AND ITS TREATMENT

A paper on the Jalalabad seal written by Massimo Vidale, Francoise Dessert, and Dennys Frenez presents a scholarly view of the seal. They describe the elements of the iconography well, which can be accessed on academia.edu for details. Hence, researchers suggested six possible alternative readings to the inscribed text because the seal is partly damaged and the signs in the text are difficult to distinguish. In my opinion, one of them seems appropriate since it interprets iconography. My decipherment indicates that the text refers to leprosy and its treatment. Therefore, all those elements of iconography have been described accordingly.