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Painted Potsherds

  • Painted Potsherds

Nine sherds, painted potsherd Right, Top row: painting of a ‘Peacock and a hen facing each other’ Sahni documented this potsherd from Mound F, area of parallel walls with a copper nail extractor, several seals, a large copper chisel (Ae 342), te… >

Faience Objects

  • Faience objects harappa

Find nos. AF12, P IV 100, B 1705. 1. Left: broken piece of a bangle, resembles Pl CXXXVIII, no 5, Possibly of faience. Vats noted: “Most of the faience examples are ornamented with cog-wheel edges or incised linear patterns” (Vats 1940, p. 448)… >

Stone Objects Harappa

  • Stone Objects Harappa

Left: Inscribed pottery Middle resembles no. 21, in Vats 1940 (Vol. II) Pl LXXXIII. Vats described this and another (no. 20) as quatrefoil cones. See Photo 54 for description of 20. “… No. 21 (PII-20) of red sandstone. This latter is the best… >

Terracotta animals

  • Terracotta animals

Four in a row: of them one ram and one unicorn. Vats stated: “Animal figures, mostly in terracotta, have been found in very large numbers at Harappa. … Harappa offers a greater variety of animal figures than those yet published from Mohenjo-daro… >

Terracotta Animals 2

  • Terracotta animals

See Terracotta animals for a general description of the terracotta animal figurines from Harappa. Find number of the one second from right is Ab 81. >

Terracotta Figurines including Female

  • Terracotta Figurines including Female

Three are female, the fourth, second from left is of the lower part of a finely modelled figure. Find no. A 127. Right: has a thick braid. Second from right: wears “a distinctive headdress which rises fan like from back of the head… a close fi… >

Terracotta Objects Harappa

  • Terracotta Objects Harappa

Three jars, the one in middle on a stand, has a band of two incised lines in the middle. Left: the surface has impressed marks on clay. Flat bottom. >

Harappa Terracotta Objects including Dice

  • Harappa Terracotta Objects including Dice

Left: Terracotta Birdcage. Find no. Ab 554. Published in Vats 1940 (Vol. II) Pl. CXX, no. 22. Middle: a round dice, or a ball, with holes on surface. Find no. 5859. Right: Double headed terracotta bust of lion on a cone. Published in ARAS… >

Objects including Games Piece

  • Objects including Games Piece

Two rows of small objects, three in one row. Four are round, one cylinder and one conical. All from Pit III, find nos. 69, 71, 72, A49 and ?69. >

Game, Bone and Shell Objects

  • Game, Bone and Shell Objects

10 small objects in two rows of five each. Top row: Similar looking objects published in Vats 1940 (Vol. II), Plate CXVII, nos. 28-31. Vats described these as “chessman shaped lingams” and mentioned that they “are found in very large numbers … >

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