Granary

The so-called "Great Granary" in Mound F. Its earliest levels date to 2450 B.C. A similar structure, also about 50 meters long and built on a massive brick or mud-brick platform, was found at Mohenjo-daro. Influenced by European precedents, early ar… >

REM Granary Closeup view of stairway in the northwestern part of the REM Granary excavations (see photo 138) From Wheeler's Civilizations of the Indus Valley and Beyond "The granary at Mohenjo-daro was built on a high podium with ventilation p… >

Plan view of the so-called "granary" or "parallel-wall structure" on Mound F at Harappa indicating areas of HARP excavations conducted in 1997 and 1999. Note that the structural remains surrounding the "granary" are, for the most part, later than th… >

Detail view of the fill inside the "granary" buttress. Large pottery sherds, bone, and baked brick fragments lie on the bottom with finer silts on the top >

No grain, storage containers or clay sealings such as would have been attached to goods for shipment were found in the so-called "Granaries" of Harappa or Mohenjo-daro. Archaeologists today prefer to call these structures great halls, since they wer… >

REM Granary Looking north along the western edge of the Granary excavations. A large storage vessel crushed by the weight of the overlying sediments is visible at the edge of a small wall. The fired brick wall on the right shows multiple building… >

Overview of the "granary" area looking towards the southeast. The walls have been partly restored for conservation purposes by the Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Pakistan. >

All of the sediment and artifacts were removed from "granary" buttress [99] for analysis, revealing the method of corbelled arch construction. >

Individual rooms are 15 by 6 meters long, and have sleeper walls for airspace between them. At each end of the rooms are three raised platforms. >

REM Granary Overlooking the northwest corner of the REM Granary excavations. A stairway indicates the presence of a second story. Square voids in the edges of the walls are where wooden posts would have been built into the brick foundation to sup… >