Earthen jar placed inside down along west edge of the southern portion of trench A (e).
Is this the same jar as the Large Earthen Jar? Both were found with their mouth (this case, inside) down. Sahni described the jars as “cinerary”:
“What the ancient inhabitants of Harappa did was first to burn the dead body on a funeral pyre and then to deposit a part of the cremated bones in earthen vessels … In some cases the ashes were deposited in large vessels which were buried in the ground with their mouths turned downwards …”
- Daya Ram Sahni, ARASI 1924-25, p. 74-5.