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Three Inscribed Seals

The central unicorn seal is the same as the one pictured earlier. The rectangular seal fragment on the left is a style of seal without any animal motif and starts to be found at Harappa starting around 2450-2200 BCE (Harappa Period 3B) and 2200-1900… >

Harappa Trench B from East

Trench B is the name given to a series of trenches dug in mound A-B over successive seasons by Dara Ram Sahni between 1921 and 1925. (See below for details in Vats' account) "The operations were then shifted to the mound marked A—B in General Cun… >

Earthen Jar Fragments Trench AF

Published in ARASI 1924-25, Plate XXIV (d). Title: ‘Harappa: Mound F, Contents of a Cinerary Jar (A (F) 317)’ Sahni described the area this was found as: “between the trench “Ae” … and the long trench A, a large rectangular cutting A(f)… >

Yellow Stone and Pierced Terracotta Balls and Stone Implement

"Balls in terracotta, stone, shell, and faience have been found universally at Harappa, those in terracotta being recovered in specially large numbers." >

Faience Tablet and Button Seals

"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 which lies to the north of corridor e was… >

Large Embedded Jar Harappa

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… >

Excavations on Site B from S.W.

Published in ARASI 1924-25, Plate XXV (b). Title: ‘Harappa: Mound B, A large brick building’. “Stratum No. 5 was occupied by a brick building of considerable dimension (Plate XXV a [this should be b]) which came to light 24’ below the hi… >

Steatite and Faience Seals and Tablets

  • Seven seals

The seals are numbered 1-7 from top left to bottom right. Seal 1: Mound A-B Sahni writes: "The seventh stratum will probably be found to be occupied by a building of considerable magnitude though so far only a portion of it… >

Harappa Excavations in Trench A (b)

  • Excavation in Mound F Trench A(b)

Trench A(b) is one of eastward trenches cut by Daya Ram Sahni in Mound F. "In order to trace some more walls of the two blocks of of the Great Granary Mr. Sahni made a few stray extensions about the centre of Trench A both towards the east and we… >

Pointed Base Goblet

"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 which lies to the north of corridor e was… >

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