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First Excavations at Harappa
1924-25: A Lost City Emerges

Cell with Pointed Jars

Small cell behind later sepulchre in trench A (e) in which a number of pointed jars with bones were found.

There is no mention in ARASI 1924-25 of a sepulchre in Trench A (e) with pointed jars with bones.

Of a sepulchre from a later period in A (e) Sahni noted that: “The uppermost stratum yielded, besides a number of fragmentary walls, a Well preserved sepulchre constructed with burnt bricks of the usual size and lying cast to West (Plate XXIV, a)”.

- Daya Ram Sahni, ARASI 1924-25, p. 77.

NOTE: This photograph also shows this sepulchre.

Sahni’s excavations of Trench A (e) is mentioned in Vats 1940, Vol. I. pp. 48-9.

Vats summed up the description with: “Perhaps I may also add that in the large area which has since been excavated on this and other mounds at Harappa, not a single sepulchre has so far been met with” (Ibid, p. 49).

Slide Year
1924-25: A Lost City Emerges
ASI Number
446/86
Punjab Volume
31
Silver Plate
3446
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Harappa
Photograph
Daya Ram Sahni
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