Daya Ram Sahni

Harappa East of Naugaza Tomb

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Daya Ram Sahni continues his narrative after the ringstone discussion on the Mound AB excavations: "The floor level of the building referred to above was reached at the depth of about thirteen feet below the surface of the mound.

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Mound AB Naugaza Mound

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"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.

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Harappa Mound AB Perpendicular Cutting

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"A second trench was started in the western portion of this mound, but I was so completely bewildered by the enormous accumulations of earth that had to be cleared away that it appeared futile to continue it at the present stage." At this point Sahni

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Harappa Trench B from East

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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

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Two Earthenware Inkpots and Lota

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Daya Ram Sahni found objects he quickly called "inkpot[s] of the shape used in old type Pathsalaif and maktabs to this day" (p. 13). One of these was found in Trench C – "No. C. 2 has three holes in the mouth for the string" (p.

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Harappa Trench B 1923-24

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"Due south of Mound F, and across the village road going west to the hamlet of Hafiz Bullah, stands Mound AB—the highest of all the mounds at Harappa (Pl. I). Roughly, it is a parallelogram in shape, measuring some 1,450 ft.

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Three Earthenware Inkpots

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Three more examples, all from Mound F, of what Daya Ram Sahni immediately identified as inkpots. "The other portable antiquities recovered in this Mound F, though not numerous, all point to a high antiquity.

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Two earthenware implements

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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.

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Overview of the Excavation at the Northeast Corner of Mound AB

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The man at the center of this image is likely to be Daya Ram Sahni [see closer view], but further work is needed to absolutely be certain of identity of the individuals in the photographs. In this overview looking from the southwest to the

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Three Crucibles

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Sahni recognized the object on the right [C 2]as linked to twining as well:"A conical-shaped object with a hole in the base which might have held a wooden stick. Such instruments are used for twining the sacred thread" (p.

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