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Daya Ram Sahni

Two earthenware implements

Another class of objects, even if incomplete, were also immediately familiar to Day Ram Sahni: "(16) An earthen instrument for making twines. It is a curved shaped piece with five holes, one of which is broken off. Each hole received a strand, al… >

Steatite Seals

  • Four seals

These steatite seals are depicted in Sahni's report for 1923-24, although only only is described and its location provided. The four seals are listed clockwise from the top left. Seal 1: (Sahni Pl XIX, 13) Seal 2: M… >

Harappa Pit IV Excavated Structures

Pit IV showing excavated structures from N.W. Possibly of this structure after its excavation, Sahni reported that the “fourth or the northernmost pit revealed the remains of several structures, the best preserved one of which is a rectangular c… >

Sculptures in western portion

A slightly different photograph of the structure, not so close as in this photograph is published in ARASI 1924-25, Plate XXV (d). Title: ‘Harappa: Mound B, A Double Burial Structure’ Sahni noted: “On the next or third stratum from the t… >

Trench B Central Paving

"In the northern portion of this mound, Rai Bahadur Daya Ram Sahni excavated a considerable area (B) in the years 1920-21, 1923-24 and 1924-25. He began by sinking a trial trench 55 ft. long by 20 ft. wide, a little to the west of and parallel to th… >

Late Brick Wall and Granary

  • Trench Bf

Note that Trench Bf was subsumed by Trench B over subsequent seasons. "The operations were then shifted to the mound marked A—B in General Cunningham's plan, on the east side of which some trial diggings had been carried out in the year 1920-21… >

Block of Parallel Walls

View of the parallel wall area, Mound F, noted subsequently by Vats as the eastern part of the Great Granary. For Sahni’s and Vats’s description of the excavations of this area see Parallel Walls. See Plate III Vats 1940 Vol II, for a ‘Plan of… >

Pit I Harappa

View of Pit I, in southern portion of Section of B, Mound AB, showing remains of brick lined structures and a few large earthen jars insitu. Sahni reported: “Four large pits, each 50' square, were sunk simultaneously in a line in the sou… >

Trench B, Excavation Overview

  • Mound A-B, trench B

Mound A-B Trench B: General View from East-South East. This image was published in Vats' monograph as Pl XXX, d. "In the high western part [of mound A-B] (PI. XXX, d, left back-ground) in square P 18/4, Stratum I. Rai… >

Two Terracotta Toy Carts

The wheel (A 233) was found inside the large earthen chati unearthed in the first long trench on Mound F. "(21) The only other kind of toy is a cart (Plate X. Photo. No. 2749) consisting of a shallow rectangular basin with rings for the ends of t… >

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