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Mound E

Trench 54 detail plan

Detail top plan of the workshop for making steatite and faience beads and inscribed tablets in Trench 54 South. >

Plan of Mound E perimeter wall segment

Plan view of the portion of perimeter wall [250] excavated in 2001. The pattern of the bricks suggests a complicated series of additions to the inside of the structure that are not yet well understood. There may have been a gateway at the northweste… >

Trench 54 looking south

Overview of Trench 54 looking south to the slope on the far side where the steatite and faience workshop was discovered. >

Structures adjoining perimeter wall

In the South, perimeter wall [250] was preserved to a lesser altitude than in the North. In the very south of the area excavated in 1996, the lower portions of the walls of a mud-brick room were found attached to the inside of the perimeter wall nex… >

Robbed brick wall and room

The excavations of the lower slope area of Trench 54 South revealed a robbed brick wall void filled with rubble (foreground) and a room filled with manufacturing debris from faience and steatite working. >

Structures inside perimeter wall

Excavations during the 1997-2001 seasons were carried out inside perimeter wall [250]. Here a partial plan of those excavations shows superimposed levels of Period 3C buildings, all mostly robbed of their baked brick walls. [Mud-bricks are hatched, … >

Section drawing

Section drawing of stratigraphic layers in the upper part of the Trench 54 South faience and steatite workshop. >

Retaining walls inside perimeter wall

Towards the east, in what was probably a low area, a series of radiating mud-brick retaining walls were built to contain rubble that was used as a foundation for later structures, only fragments of which are preserved. In the rubble were found a gre… >

Trench 54 perimeter wall

View of excavations on the west side of Trench 54 where brick robbers had removed several massive Harappan Period baked brick walls (c. 2600-1900 BC, Harappa Period 3). At the bottom of the brick robber trench are remains of the Harappan walls and a… >

Unexcavated Area of Mound E, Harappa

Unexcavated Area of Mound E. [Topographical and excavation maps of the Harappa site.] >

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