Metal Plate
A copper/bronze plate with vertical sides that could easily fit into a modern household.
Images of and objects from the ancient Indus city of Mohenjo-daro, Sindh.
Mohenjo-daro Great Bath in the Distance
To the left one can make out the Great Bath and the super-structure around it.
VS Area, Section A. Block I, House II: Room 23, showing brick floor with dyeing troughs
[Original 1931 caption] "House II. - Rooms 1 to 26, covering a rectangular area of 86 ft. 10 in. by 64 ft. 5 in.
Miscellaneous Carnelian, Shell and Other Beads
TRINKETS WORN BY PREHISTORIC INDIAN PEOPLE: MISCELLANEOUS BEADS OF CORNELIAN [CARNELIAN], SHELL AND SO ON, FROM MOHENJO-DARO.
Camel Skeleton Mohenjo-daro [29]
Area not known
Overview of a camel skeleton (Camelus sp.) that was buried in a pit associated with buildings made from complete and broken Harappan.
Ram Figurine
Dr. Kenoyer writes (Ancient Cities, p. 164) referring to this ram figurine that domestic goats were "kept in cities, where they were used for meat and diary products, as well as for wool or goat's hair," and (p. 227):
"Hollow, seated ram figurine
Miniature Funeral Pottery
USED IN PREHISTORIC URN-BURIAL TO HOLD FOOD OR RAIMENT AND PLACED WITH THE URN INSIDE A LARGER JAR: MINIATURE FUNERAL POTTERY (1 TO 1.5 1N. HIGH) FROM MOHENJO-DARO.
Mohenjo-daro Lower Town: VS area and Stupa View
This general view of houses in VS area shows the color of the brick walls after the use of mud brick and clay slurry for conservation.
Seal Signs
Although the Indus Valley script is still undeciphered, there is some agreement among a number of leading scholars that it represents some sort of proto-Dravidian language common in South India today.
Northern end of cutting on east side of Stupa, showing the Indus structures from north
[Original 1931 text] "Of the drains which served this building and which belonged to the later reconstruction, one (EE) is carried east and west along the inner side of its northern wall through Chambers 10 and 11 and so beneath the monastery shrine