Yellow Stone and Pierced Terracotta Balls and Stone Implement
"Balls in terracotta, stone, shell, and faience have been found universally at Harappa, those in terracotta being recovered in specially large numbers."
Harappa, Punjab ancient Indus civilization excavations, figurines, seals and other objects.
Block of Parallel Walls 2
For Sahni’s description of the excavations at the area of the ‘parallel walls’ see ARASI 1924-25, pp. 76.
The walls were both, stouter and thinner.
Richard Meadow photographing
Richard Meadow photographs the excavations in Trench 54 from a tall bamboo ladder that is supported by four ropes. This ladder can be situated over any area of the excavations to obtain near vertical views of rooms and artifact scatters.
Female figurine with a double volute headdress from Harappa
Other female figurines have a double volute headdress that is usually decorated and sometimes painted black as well.
Microscopic analysis of bead drill hole
Scanning electron microscope photos of a molded impression of the drill hole indicate that the amazonite bead (8) was drilled with a tapered chert or jasper drill.
Chest of a Figurine
"This object is actually part of a composite figurine of a gharial, the narrow snouted crocodile that used to live in the local rivers and ox-bow lakes. The animal is commonly depicted on terracotta and steatite tablets and on intaglio seals.
Period IIIA Cultural Stratigraphy
Period 3A deposits, representing an early urban phase, exist beneath Mounds E and also show expansion onto the area beneath Mound AB. Growth in the city of Harappa is shown to be both lateral and vertical.
Large earthenware Vat
"Four trial trenches were dug in site F in places which appeared most favourable for examination.
Earthern Stone Jar from Harappa
TAPERING AT THE BASE: A PREHISTORIC EARTHERN STORE JAR FROM HARAPPA (WITH A TWO-FOOT RULE BESIDE IT).
Workmen's platforms, Harappa
These platforms are often called workmen's platforms, and were first thought to have been used to thresh grain for what was also thought to have been the nearby "Great Granary."