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

Later Sepulchre in Trench A

If this is a late sepulchre in Trench A, as the provisional title suggests, then the structure is from Mound F, and from the same area as the structure in Mound F burial structure [published in ARASI 1924-25 as Plate XXIV (a)].

Sahni noted “a well preserved sepulchre constructed with burnt bricks of the usual size” [photograph 14] from the “uppermost stratum” in the large area A (e), “with probably another structure of the same kind adjoining it on the south side but placed at right angles to it. … Brick by brick the upper layer was removed to examine the contents of the structure which were found to consist of fine brick concrete and earth with a number of very small pieces of charred bones which, though too small to be identified, must undoubtedly have belonged to a cremated body.”

- Daya Ram Sahni, ARASI 1924-25, p. 75.

Slide Year
1924-25: A Lost City Emerges
ASI Number
485/86
Punjab Volume
31
Silver Plate
3483
Sepulchre
Harappa
Photograph
Daya Ram Sahni
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