Mohenjo Daro Lower Town: VS Area
VS Area is directly to the east of the citadel mound.
Images of and objects from the ancient Indus city of Mohenjo-daro, Sindh.
Statuette of red stone from Harappa
[Original 1931 text] "The treatment of the red stone torso could hardly be simpler or more direct.
Indus Game Board
Sir John Marshall continues describing the game pieces found at Mohenjo-daro (Mohenjo-daro, pp. 557-59):
"The poorer people used gamesmen made of pieces of potsherd roughly rubbed into a suitable shape.
Wall Construction, Mohenjo-daro [100]
Area not known
View of a large fired brick wall along the edge of the mound shows the construction of a later wall along the same alignment, and the infilling of what would have been a small open area or alleyway.
Bath Area, Mohenjo-daro
Almost every house unit at Mohenjo-daro was equipped with a private bathing area with drains to take the dirty water out into a larger drain that emptied into a sewage drain.
Mohenjo Daro Lower Town: HR Area
HR Area is located southeast of the citadel mound. Large areas of the mound have not yet been excavated and are covered with eroding brick structures and pottery.
Unicorn Seal
This unicorn seal was also discovered during the late 1927-31 excavations at Mohenjo-daro. One theory holds that the bull actually has two horns, but that these have been stylized to one because of the complexity of depicting three dimensions.
Female Figurines with Turbanlike headresses
"Figurines with elaborate headdresses and numerous layers of necklaces are usually somewhat larger than the more simple terracotta figurines."
Trough
The unicorn always has this object in front of it. There are at least five theories about this object. Mackay and Marshall thought it was the feeding trough or "manger" still seen in Sindh today.
Statuette of grey stone from Harappa
[Original 1931 text] "It is the figure of a dancer standing on his right leg, with the body from the waist upwards bent well round to the left, both arms thrown out in the same direction, and the left leg raised high in front.