Excavations near center of Mound AB, Harappa
Excavations near the center of Mound AB.
Harappa, Punjab ancient Indus civilization excavations, figurines, seals and other objects.
An Earthenware Martban and Two Lotas
In the large earthen chati, more commonly called a globular pot today, were found what Sahni called lotas, used colloquially to designate drinking vessels, and are now referred to as pointed base goblets though these are not the exact ones found in
Baked brick revetment of the "granary" platform
J. Mark Kenoyer sitting in the right foreground takes notes during excavations at the southwest corner of the "granary" (Trench 1SW). The baked brick revetment of the "granary" platform is in the foreground, the southernmost baked brick wall of the
An Ivory Chess Disc and Two Chess Figures
"Objects used for games are not many. Those that may be said to be unmistakable are balls and marbles in stone, shell, faience and pottery; dice of the same materials except shell; and some gamesmen of tetrahedral or chessman shape, the latter hardly distinguishable from baetyls."
Mound AB Center Area
A closer view of a room or the side of a building on Mound AB, Harappa.
Excavations on Site B from S.W.
Published in ARASI 1924-25, Plate XXV (b). Title: ‘Harappa: Mound B, A large brick building’.
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Elephant faience tablet
Faience tablet (H2000-4387/2089-02), found during surface collecting, depicts an elephant on one side and has script on the reverse (not shown).
Three female figurines with painted fan-shaped headdresses from Harappa
Many of the fan-shaped headdresses were painted black.
Ravi phase pit
Normally in archaeology pits are emptied before earlier surrounding layers are excavated.
Mound E Gateway Artists Conception
Photograph of gateway excavations, 1995.
A series of side rooms were also excavated along the eastem edge of the gateway in 1995. The latest phase of construction also included a large east-west oriented doorway leading through the eastem edge of the