"Granary" or Mound F Rooms, Harappa
Individual rooms are 15 by 6 meters long, and have sleeper walls for airspace between them. At each end of the rooms are three raised platforms.
Harappa, Punjab ancient Indus civilization excavations, figurines, seals and other objects.
Neck of Large Jar
There are two photographs of the painted neck of an oval jar (A442) discovered in Mound F. They are taken from slightly different angles to capture details of the rim, curvature and the painted motifs.
the original forms of the baked brick walls and hollow buttresses of the "granary"
After clearing the overlying silt, the original forms of the baked brick walls and hollow buttresses of the "granary" could be made out.
Top of a Colossal Clay Jar
Whether or not this was one of the first objects discovered in Trench A, given the catalogue number 2, is unclear, but it was unusual to Daya Ram Sahni who said he had not seen something of the sort before, with an opening over a foot across.
Pottery sherds with potter's marks
The pit filled with kiln debris in Tench 54 had in it sherds from ceramic vessels with marks inscribed on their bases before firing and also from a flat inscribed disc or "bat" (at left) that was used as a removable base for throwing pottery on a
Female figurine with a "turban" from Harappa
The hair of female figurines is sometimes bound up in a sort of "turban".
Approximate dimensions (W x H x D): 3.6 x 9.5 x 2.8 cm.
Mound AB, Harappa
The high mound at Harappa (Mound AB) is surrounded by a massive mud brick city wall with large square ramparts. One of these eroding ramparts is visible through the underbrush that now covers the site.
Ravi phase carnelian bead blanks
Chipped carnelian bead blanks indicate that the initial stages of bead manufacture were taking place in this part of the Ravi phase settlement.
Periods I-V Stratigraphic Cross-Section
Period IV-V
1900-1700 B.C.
Period IIIBC
2450-1900 B.C.
Period IIIA
2600-2450 B.C.
Period II
2800-2600 B.C.
Period I
3300-2800 B.C.
Pre-Occupation
before 3300 B.C.
The purpose of this continuing research is to develop a system
Ravi Phase Pot
This Ravi Phase hand-built pot with polychrome design was found next to the one with intersecting circles illustrated earlier (11). The net and bird motifs are found at other sites to the northwest in Bannu district, but they do not continue into the