Great Bath, SD Area, looking north
The tank would have been open to the sky, but the surrounding structures would have been roofed. The sidewalls and parts of the floor have been conserved using modern replica bricks.
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Lower ledge and Drain outlet, Great Bath, SD Area, looking west
At the southwestern corner of the sloping floor, a small drain first passes through the massive walls of the tank and connects to a corbelled arch drain that curves along the edge of the northern terrace of the granary to the west.
Great Bath, SD Area
The floor slopes down to the southwest corner where a small outlet (top right) leads to a brick drain, which takes the water to the edge of the mound.
Corbelled Drain exiting the Great Bath
This drain cuts through the edge of the so-called granary. If the entire drain were constructed along with the Great Bath, this feature would indicate that the original "granary" was built before the great bath.
Contemporary Bath, Harappa
No "Great Bath" like that in Mohenjo-daro has been found in Harappa, and it is not known if one existed among the miles of ruins carted off for railway construction in the early 1850's.