Female Figurines
Early Harappan (Kot Dijian Phase, Period II) female figurines are often broken. On the left is the lower half of a figurine, showing wide hips and pointed legs. On the right is the upper half of a figurine with traces of painting.
Harappa, Punjab ancient Indus civilization excavations, figurines, seals and other objects.
Hollow baked brick buttresses
Hollow baked brick buttresses were later built up against the original "granary" structure on top of a shallow mud-brick platform [400] that itself overlies the mud-brick platform of the original "granary". Below these platforms is baked brick wall
A newly discovered button seal fragment, Harappa
A fragment of a button seal, newly discovered at the site in 1998.
Prehistoric Seals from Mohenjo-daro and Harappa
ENGRAVED WITH A PICTOGRAPHIC SCRIPT UNLIKE ANY PREVIOUSLY KNOWN INDIAN ALPHABET, BUT SOMEWHAT RESEMBLING MYCENAEAN PICTOGRAPHS: PRE-HISTORIC SEALS FROM MOHENJO-DARO AND HARAPPA
[From Sir John Marshall's story in the issue describing the finds and
Terracotta objects
A number of miscellaneous objects emerged during excavations on Mound F, which contributed the majority of artifacts catalogued in the 1921 ASI report by Daya Ram Sahni.
Different types of beads
The ancient Harappans went to great efforts to obtain exotic colored stones for making beads of different shapes and sizes.
Female figurine nursing an infant from Harappa
The infants being nursed by female figurines are usually very schematically represented by a bent and pinched roll of clay with or without applied eyes.
Terracotta bull, female bust and bull head
Smaller items start getting grouped for the photographs, in photographs from subsequent years we start to see many more objects grouped in each image.
[1] Terracotta head, left. Terracotta bull, right.
"Harappa offers a greater variety of animal
Drain, Harappa
Excavated by the Harappa Archaeological Research Project in 1993, this large corbelled drain was built in the middle of an abandoned gateway at Harappa to dispose of rainwater and sewage.
Ravi phase raw materials
Flakes of various shades of agate, carnelian, jasper, chert, and lapis lazuli indicate the range of raw materials being processed in this part of Harappa during the Ravi phase.