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Mohenjo-daro

Images of and objects from the ancient Indus city of Mohenjo-daro, Sindh.

Mohenjo-daro Collapsed Brick Wall [99]

  • Mohenjo-daro Collapsed Brick Wall

Area not known This excavated area shows a collapsed brick wall consisting of around 15 courses of bricks that has slumped into an open area. The thickness of each brick is approximately 6.5 to 7 cm and would indicate that the wall was originally… >

Pottery with Painted Design, Mohenjo-daro [170]

  • Pottery with Painted Design, Mohenjo-daro

Area not known Painted Pottery, red slip with black painted design. 1 [top left] 2 3 4 5 6 left to right. No. 170 >

Pottery Cache (Group B) in a Post-towers Context (Context D) of the Citadel Fortifications [24]

  • Pottery Cache (Group B) in a Post-towers Context (Context D) of the Citadel Fortifications

ACC - Citadel Gateway Southeast Upper levels of fill with lots of broken pottery in a room made of fired brick walls. Wheeler identified the pottery as "Group B" and dated the room to the period after the construction and use of the towers of wha… >

Deep cutting near north-west corner of monastery, showing pavement of seventh stratum

[Original 1931 text] "To have cleared these remains completely or even to the extent of recovering the main lines of their plans would have meant dismantling the Buddhist buildings above them, and, as ther were obvious objections to removing such in… >

North wall of House XXV

[Original 1931 text] "Houses XXV and XXVI are built on the foundations of a large structure of the Intermediate I Period, of which onoy the back or west wall has been exposed. House XXV faces towards the south and like No. XXIV has a wide open court… >

Mohenjo-daro: Citadel from the South east, with Buddhist stupa

Mohenjo-daro: citadel from the south east, with Buddhist stupa (p. 38). A close modern photograph of the Stupa Mound, Mohenjo-daro. >

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. The board on which these pieces were used w… >

Monkey Figurine

Another example where Indus craftsmen are able to imbue a tiny figurine with indelible character. Marshall wrote (Mohenjo-daro, pp. 351): "No 13 (DK 2091), which is 1.5 inches high, is a delightful little figure of a monkey squatting with hand… >

A Staircase outside a Shrine

UNEARTHED DEEP DOWN BELOW THE BUDDHIST MONUMENTS OF THE SECOND CENTURY AT MOHENJO-DARO: MUCH EARLIER REMAINS–A STAIRCASE OUTSIDE A SHRINE, WITH A CONDUIT COVERED BY MARBLE SLABS (IN THE FOREGROUND). Photography by the Archaeological Survey of In… >

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