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

Earthen Sump Jar

Sink for collection of water in the form of an earthen jar with channel cut out of a brick.

A jar, numbered A (f) 160,insitu.

Sahni mentions a large earthen jar near a bathing platform in Trench A (f), near the circular structures: “Another little structure consists of a paved platform surrounded by a single course of brick laid on-edge which might have been a bathing platform as a large earthen jar was standing on one side of it” (p. 77).

Underneath the structure, with paved platform, he found “a mass of cremated human bones”.

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

For Vats’s note of Sahni’s report above, see Vats 1940, , Vol. I, p. 50. He does not mention the jar among the list of “antiquities found scattered in Trench Af”.

Slide Year
1924-25: A Lost City Emerges
ASI Number
459/86
Punjab Volume
31
Silver Plate
3459
Sanitation
Pottery
Harappa
Photograph
Daya Ram Sahni
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