Comprehension Passage

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The regimented cantonment of Harappa may suggest the priest-controlled industries of Sumer. It may even be permissible to propose a priest-king for Mohenjodaro. But all these points, real or imagined, may be ascribed rather to the inherent cousinship of a social phase than to literal, local interchange. They are common generalities, the product of stray seeds readily fertilized in similar historical and geographical settings. The particularities, on the other hand, show abundant and significant local variation. In such sculptural art as the Indus has produced, there is no real affinity with the sculpture of Sumer. No one would mistake a stone carving from Mohenjodaro for one from Tell Asmar or Mari. The Indus terracottas are in a different world from those of Mesopotamia. The art of the Harappan seals has no close parallel in the whole history of glyptic. 

What can be inferred in the context of Mesopotamian links to the Harappa civilization in the light of more recent discoveries?

1
The script is similar to cuneiform script
2
The seals and symbols on them are Sumerian
3
The smaller sites from Gujarat and Rajasthan show Mesopotamian features
4
The Harappan civilization cannot be viewed entirely through a Mesopotamian lens

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