Large Jar embedded in the south site of a small wall in front of a tiny cell near wall No. 17 in A (b).
Photograph of a jar insitu.
Sahni excavated a long Trench A in Mound F, which Vats reported in detail:
“In order to trace some more walls of the two blocks of the Great Granary Mr Sahni made a few stray extensions about the centre of Trench A both towards the east and west. In the former direction, that part of which lies to the north of corridor é was termed Ab, and the one to the south as Aa, while the two small westward extensions were termed Ac and Ad.” (Vats 1940, p. 23).
Ab provided rich finds, and Sahni noted:
“In the area Ab, close to the statuette of the dancer and in the same stratum, he found a plano-convex, rectangular steatite seal (No. Ab922, PI. XCII, 275), and an excellent representation of a terracotta ant-eater (No. Ab923, PI. LXXVIII, 26). Scattered over the remaining part of this extension he found from Stratum I an inscribed pointed ivory rod (No. Ab62, PI. XCIX, 643), and in association with Stratum II a cuboid chert weight (A616), a rectangular cake of red ochre (No. Abl04), a planoconvex rectangular steatite seal (No. Abl30, PL XCII, 269), half of a square faience sealing (No. Ab44, PI. XCV, 394) inscribed with a double square, a tiny rectangular faience sealing (No. Ab473) inscribed on both sides (PL C, 672), a pierced vase-shaped pottery cage (No. Ab554) showing one bird coming out from an aperture and another perched on the side (PL CXX, 22), a pear-shaped, flat-bottomed pottery vase with horizontal flutes (No. Ab268, ht. 4 ½ in., Pl LXXI, 17, and PL LXX, 42), and a painted potsherd (No. Ab207), which shows a peacock and a hen facing each other, part of another quadruped, etc. (PL LXVIII, 54). From the Illrd stratum were recovered i rectangular, planoconvex steatite seal (No. Ab553, PL XCII, 274), two faience sealings of which No. Ab707 is lentoid and inscribed on both sides (PL XCV, 380), and No. Ab269 rectangular but semi-round in section, having pictograms on one side and an acacia tree enclosed in a platform on the other (similar to No. 328 in PL XCIII), a faience chessman-shaped object holed on the underside (Ab867), and a red stone cylinder (ht. 1 5/16 in.) with a deep hole at the top and shallow socket at bottom (Ab349). In the IVth stratum was recovered a square, bossed faience sealing (Ab43) with double triangles in fields on either side of the diagonal line (PL XCV, 400).”
- Daya Ram Sahni ARASI 1924-25, pp. 23-4.
NOTE: Wall no 17 finds no mention as a find of this trench, or anywhere in the report of the Harappa excavations in ARASI 1924-25. It is also not mentioned in Vats 1940.