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Button Seals

Ancient Indus Valley civilization and earlier button seals.

Faience button seal

A faience button seal with geometric motif (H2000-4491/9999-34) was found on the surface of Mound AB at Harappa by one of the workmen. >

Steatite button seal

Fired steatite button seal with four concentric circle designs from the Trench 54 area (H2000-4432/2174-3). >

Finding Kot Diji phase button seal

In Kot Diji phase sediment that had washed into the street, Brad Chase discovered a button seal (close-up in 44) quite similar to seals recovered from the site of Rehman Dheri in to the Northwest in the Gomal Valley. >

Glaze on Kot Diji phase button seal

On this Kot Diji phase steatite button seal from Harappa (H2000-4495 / 9597-01), traces of blue-green glaze can be seen (upper center and left center). Similar seals have been found at other Kot Diji period sites and even in distant Central Asia. >

A newly discovered button seal fragment, Harappa

A fragment of a button seal, newly discovered at the site in 1998. >

Mundigak Stone Seals

The center stone button seal is from Period IV (2900-2400 BCE), while the right most stone button seal is similar to ones from Period II (3500-3400 BCE) and Period III (3400-2900 BCE). "Stone seals appear in Mundigak in their most crude form of P… >

Faience Tablet and Button Seals

"In order to trace some more walls of the two blocks of the Great Granary Mr. Sahni made a few stray extensions about the centre of Trench A both towards the east and west. In the former direction, that part which lies to the north of corridor e was… >

Two Button Seals Harappa

Obverse and Reverse of a Seal, published [in the same sequence as in the photograph] in Vats 1940, Vol. II, Pl. XCI, field No. 255. Title: ‘Rhomboidal Steatite Seal’, no. 255. Found from Pit IV Mound AB, Vats noted: “Pit IV was excavated to a … >

Harappa Button Seals

Nine seals: square, rectangular and oval. In three, the script can be clearly seen. The rest depict geometric motifs, of which one is described as svastika. Two published in Vats 1940: Plate XCV, nos. 396 and 400; Find numbers: AB 2545 and Ab 4… >

Unicorn and other Seals

Published in ARASI 1924-25, Plate XXVIII. Title of plate: ‘Seals and Other Objects’ Four unicorn seals, a rhomboidal seal, and rectangular seals. The provenance for some provided in the object label quoted below. From left to rig… >

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