Published ARASI 1924-25, Plate XXVI (d). Title: ‘Harappa: Mound A Large sized Ring of Polished Stone’ Despite the object label of Pl. XXVI d, which notes the provenance as Harappa, this plate is documented in ARASI 1924-25 as a … >
Harappan shell working was carried out in many areas of the site using a wide range of marine shell species. These two examples of Fasciolaria trapezium, have been chipped to remove pieces of the outer shell that may have been used for making shell … >
The seals are published as Plate XIX, 8 and 9 in Sahni's report (Daya Ram Sahni, 1926. Annual Report Of The Archaeological Survey Of India 1923-24, pg 54.), but they are not individually identified in the text. The seal on the right (Pl. XI… >
"The sites F and A — B and some of the other mounds bid fair to yield many more valuable relics and the deep ravines cut by rain water afford convenient places for reaching the earlier strata with comparatively little trouble. One of these ravines i… >
Published in ARASI 1924-25, Plate XXV (a). Title: ‘Harappa: Mound B, General View from East’. “A large trench excavated in mound B (Plate XXV a) behind the Naugaza tomb during my operations of 1920-21 and 1923-24 had revealed fragments o… >
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 not… >
Three earthen jars found in the southern portion of the summit of site B, from E. A large and two smaller jars, one with a conical base. Of the excavations at the top of Mound B Sahni noted: “The past year’s excavations show that the upper p… >
Small cell behind later sepulchre in trench A (e) in which a number of pointed jars with bones were found. There is no mention in ARASI 1924-25 of a sepulchre in Trench A (e) with pointed jars with bones. Of a sepulchre from a later p… >
"In January 1921, Rai Bahadur Daya Ram Sahni sank in the north-western part of this mound the diagonal Trench A, 16 ft. wide and 500 ft. long from south-east to north-west, starting from the centre of the mound and reaching almost to its north-weste… >
This excerpt refers to mound F excavations in Extension Ab. "Another trial trench which had to be cut through a thick layer of earth and debris revealed a huge mass of broken earthen vessels of different shapes and designs varying in size from sm… >