This excerpt refers to mound F excavations in Extension Ab. "Another trial trench which had to be cut through a thick layer of earth and debris revealed a huge mass of broken earthen vessels of different shapes and designs varying in size from sm… >
10 small objects in two rows of five each. Top row: Similar looking objects published in Vats 1940 (Vol. II), Plate CXVII, nos. 28-31. Vats described these as “chessman shaped lingams” and mentioned that they “are found in very large numbers … >
"Objects used for games are not many. Those that may be said to be unmistakable are balls and marbles in stone, shell, faience and pottery; dice of the same materials except shell; and some gamesmen of tetrahedral or chessman shape, the latter hardly distinguishable from baetyls." >
Sir John Marshall has an extensive section (see Images 2 and 3 for his references) on linga, yoni and the often difficult job of distinguishing them from game pieces and stones in general (Mohenjo-daro, p. 58-63). We reproduce the entire section fro… >
A wide variety of game pieces from Mohenjo-daro on a modern wooden board. Sir John Marshall, one of the earliest excavators at Mohenjo-daro writes in the monumental work summarizing the first finds at the site (Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Civiliza… >
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… >
Ernest J.H. Mackay identified this piece as a gameboard, and wrote in Further Excavations (p. 574-5): "We have been fortunate in finding two boards on which same kind of game was played, though unluckily neither is complete. It is ikely that most… >
Apparently half-of a burnet brick that seems like it could have been a gameboard, found in the DK area of Mohenjo-daro. Note that the conical piece is likely not a gaming piece but a pointed cone. Dr. Kenoyer writes (Ancient Cities, p. 120). … >
One of the games played by the children of the Indus cities may be represented by terra cotta discs found in graduated sizes. A game called "pittu" is played throughout Pakistan and northern India even today, with stacks of pottery discs and a ball … >
