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R E V I E W S Decipherment o f the Proto-Dravidian Inscriptions of the Indus Civilization, by Asko Parpola, Seppo Koskenniemi, Simo Parpola and Pentti Aa/to (= The Scandinavian Institute o f Asian Studies, Special Publications, No. 1). Copenhagen, 1969. 72 pp. Notes, Tables, Maps, Index. (paper). It is the widely held opinion of many specialists on writing such as Gelb, Friedrich, Diringer et aL, that a decipherment of an unknown script in an unknown language is, though perhaps not impossible, certainly the most difficult type of decipherment to attempt. In spite of this, in the last four years