Pottery
Photographed between 1922-27 and published in Sir John Marshall, Mohenjodaro and The Indus Civilization (1931).
Images of and objects from the ancient Indus city of Mohenjo-daro, Sindh.
Photographed between 1922-27 and published in Sir John Marshall, Mohenjodaro and The Indus Civilization (1931).
Photographed between 1922-27 and published in Sir John Marshall, Mohenjodaro and The Indus Civilization (1931).
[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
[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
[Original 1931 text] At Harappa several examples of this mode of sepulture [complete inhumation], which are unquestionably orthodox, have already been expposed in the lower stratum of Cemetery H, and more are likely to come to view as the excavation
[Original 1931 text] "And now we come to two small statuettes which are more surprising even than the masterly engraving of the bull . . . .. When I first saw them I found it difficult to believe that they were prehistoric; they seemed to so
[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.
[Original 1931 text] "The treatment of the red stone torso could hardly be simpler or more direct.
[Original 1931 text] "The Great Bath, which I have reserved to the last, was part of what appears to have been a vast hydropathic establishment and the most imposing of all the remains unearthed at Mohenjo-daro." (Marshall, Vol. I, p. 24)
Photographed between 1922-27 and published in Sir John Marshall, Mohenjo-daro and The Indus Civilization (1931)