Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • home
  • slides
  • essays
  • articles
  • books
  • video
  • q & a
  • blog
Secondary menu
  • about us
    • scholars
    • privacy
    • support
    • image rights
    • credits
    • contact us
  • resources

Excavation Pit I Drain

View of Pit I, Mound B, with the long, gabled roof drain. The area of Pit I is marked with a label in the photograph and two men positioned in two areas to show the salient features. One stands near the cell like structures, of bricks. Sahni: “Fo… >

Earthen Jar Trench A

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… >

Circular Hearth Harappa

Circular Hearth in eastern portion of trench A (f) from S.E. There is no mention of a circular granary from trench A(f), Mound F, in ARASI 1924-25. However, Sahni noted “two little circular structures paved in brick on a thick substratum of hard … >

Fragmentary Globular Jar

Fragmentary earthen jar P.II 38. Pit II. A large earthen jar broken at the shoulder insitu, next to a structure. >

Three Seals [Backs], Harappa

"The discovery at Harappa of the very remarkable seal illustrated in figure 1 of Cunningham's Plate XXXIII in this volume [see Image 2 above] and later of a few more now in the British Museum, suggested that at this site we have the remains of a cit… >

Terracotta Animal Figurines

"Animal figures, mostly in terracotta, have been found in very large numbers at Harappa. They are also fairly common in faience, specially the squirrels and rams, both of which were used as amulets. More rarely, they were made of steatite, shell and… >

Trench B Western Extension

Looking from the northeast to the southwest, this photo shows the plinths left from the excavation of this area. The reason for not excavating these large sections may be due to the fact that there were traces of walls at the uppermost levels. Late… >

Excavation Pit II from N.E.

View of Pit II, Mound AB, showing parts of a brick structure with a label, PII 99. About the excavations of Pit II in Mound AB, Sahni reported: “No structural remains were met with in this trench until the excavation reached the depth of 12’, whe… >

Double Lion head terracotta cone found in trench A

Published in ARASI 1924-25, Plate XXVII (f), with the ‘cone’ base. Title: ‘Double-headed Terracotta bust of a Lion’ Published in Vats 1940, Vol. II, Plate LXXIX, 88. Described as ‘A Jugate Tiger Head’ The field number of this object … >

Globular Pot

Circular Hearth in Eastern Part of Trench A (f) from S.E. View of a large globular pot. Sahni reported a “large heap of ashes mixed with charred bones” from Trench A (f) [p. 75], and described the excavations at this area as: “In the area b… >

Pagination

  • First page
  • Previous page
  • Page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • Page 5
  • Page 6
  • Page 7
  • Page 8
  • Page 9
  • …
  • Next page
  • Last page
© Harappa.com 1995-2026 31