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Harappa

Harappa, Punjab ancient Indus civilization excavations, figurines, seals and other objects.

The Central Area of Mound A/AB, Harappa

The central area of Mound A/AB was continuosly rebuilt in ancient times. Behind the curved wall is a well and below it what may have been a public bathing area. >

Mound AB, Harappa

Mound AB is covered with bricks and pottery, most of it dating from 3000 to 2000 B.C. >

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… >

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer with a Worker at Harappa

University of Madison, Wisconsin archaeologist and Co-Director of HARP, Dr. Jonathan Mark Kenoyer with a worker at Harappa in 1998. >

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. Among these were what he called lids and covers for crucibles – "shallow bowls … >

Harappa Seal

Published in Vats 1940, plate XCII, No 296. The published version is the other way up. Title: Seal Found in Mound AB. Vats noted the provenance as: “In squares P 18/11 and 12 are the remains of an oblong room measuring 14 by 12 ft. internal… >

Harappa Pit III after Excavations, from N.W.

Published in Vats 1940, Vol. II, Plate XXXIV (d). Title: ‘Pit III Fragmentary Remains, from North-West’. Of Pit III in Mound AB Sahni noted: “Four large pits, each 50' square, were sunk simultaneously in a line in the southern portion of mo… >

Earthen Jar insitu Trench A (f)

The jar is more or less intact. No field number on the visible surface. >

Pot Lying East of Earlier Sepulchre

A (e) 308 earthen jar lying to the east of earlier sepulchre in trench A (e). A jar insitu. For Sahni’s description of trench A (e) in Mound F, and its contents, see ARASI 1924-25, pp. 75-76. There is no mention of this eart… >

Trench B Excavations Showing Overlapping Walls

The section above the wall shows the remains of a deep pit left by the brick robbers. Often when the digging got too deep, they just abandoned the removal of bricks and left the lowest levels of the wall intact. The workman is standing next to a cro… >

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