Ram figurine
Terra cotta ram figurine from Harappa. Such figurines may represent sacrificial animals used in specific annual rituals.
Harappa Archaeological Research Project.
Harappa, Punjab ancient Indus civilization excavations, figurines, seals and other objects.
Copper Vessel
Published in ARASI 1924-25, Plate XXVII (i), and mentioned by Sahni as P.II, 13. Title of plate: ‘Terracotta and Other Objects’.
Field no. PII-13.
Published in Vats 1940, Vol. II, Plate C XXIV, 26; Sketch in Vats 1940, Vol.
Randy Law documenting
Randy Law, a graduate student from the University of Wisconsin - Madison assisted with the excavation and documentation of Trench 54 South. Here he is using a digital camera to take close up images of manufacturing debris.
Bird figurine from Harappa
Several types of birds are represented in figurines. Bird figurines with long tapered tails probably represent parakeets.
Stone sculpture fragment - another view
Top view of the carved stone sculptural component (58) showing dowel hole for attachment to the rest of the sculpture.
Three groups of tablets
Three groups of tablets can be defined on the basis of the type of tool used to incise them and the style of inscribing. The most complex script sign appears to have been made with different numbers of strokes for each of the three groups.
Late Harappan Vessel
One of the falling walls in Trench 43 crushed a vessel that belongs to Harappa Period 4 (ca. 1900-1800/1700 BC). In this part of the mound, there appear to be transitional levels between the Harappan and Late Harappan periods.
Harappa Seal
Published in Vats 1940, plate XCII, No 296.
The published version is the other way up.
Title: Seal
Found in Mound AB. Vats noted the provenance as:
“In squares P 18/11 and 12 are the remains of an oblong room measuring 14 by 12 ft. internally (PI.
Triangulation
The locations of all important artifacts from Trench 54 South were carefully mapped using standard triangulation methods supplemented by printouts of digital overviews.
Bird figurines and grain from Harappa
A circular terracotta platform or container with many small lozenges, possibly representing grain, between the flattened broken feet of two birds perched on opposite sides of the container provides another possible example of the keeping of birds by