Excavating a red stoneware bangle
Randall Law and Shamoon excavating a red stoneware bangle in Period 3C levels just below the surface in Trench 43.
Harappa, Punjab ancient Indus civilization excavations, figurines, seals and other objects.
Glazing faience
In order to glaze faience it must be fired at approximately 940 degrees Celsius for several hours. The red color of the glowing faience barely visible inside the canister indicates that this temperature has been reached.
Harappa phase ashy debris deposits
Ashy debris deposits continued to accumulate outside of the perimeter wall, covering the curtain wall. These date to the end of Harappa Period 3B and the beginning of Period 3C.
Cemetery H house
Cemetery H house wall and floor level dating to around 1700 BCE Complete bricks used to make the wall indicates an active brick industry rather than the decline previously assumed.
Red stoneware bangle
Red stoneware bangle (H2000-4490/9843-01) with no inscription. The lack of inscription may indicate that this may have been a place where the bangles were stored prior to inscribing them for distribution.
Glazed faience tablets
Fully and partially glazed faience tablets and other fired objects could be examined after the fire had cooled and the canister opened. The steatite molds were also included in the canister to see how they would be affected by this type of firing.
Cross-section through debris deposits
Cross-sections inside (top) and outside (bottom) of perimeter wall [250]. The wall itself, being of mud-brick, was heavily eroded, sometimes to a lower elevation than the adjoining more densely packed street debris.
95 Terracotta heads
Left to right: three heads of sculptures, cast in terracotta. From Mound AB. Near the surface.
Second from left: Published in Vats 1940 (Vol. II) Pl LXXII, no. 58
Third from left: Published in Vats 1940 (Vol. II) Pl LXXII, no. 59
Right: Seated, or
Trench 38
Beneath the Late Harappan wall in Trench 38 is a large globular pot covered with an inverted bottle shaped vessel that was used as a lid. This and the other small bowl protruding from the section were set in the floor of a room earlier than the wall.
Discovering a broken unicorn seal.
While clearing a floor area in Trench 43, J. Mark Kenoyer discovers a broken unicorn seal.