Drawing of black steatite wig from Trench 43 (see image 54).

Fragile steatite tablets are exposed under the skilled hands of trained excavators using small pointed bamboo sticks and brushes.

Laboratory assistants Mohammad Naim, Shokat Ali, Said Ahmed, and Mukthar Massih carry the cleaned and conserved ringstone to the Harappa Museum for display.

Sixteen three sided tablets (c. 2300 BCE) with incised inscription on each face were found all together in the debris that had been dumped over the curtain wall (54). On one of the three sides is an inscription that is identical to the last two signs