Unexcavated Area of Mound E, Harappa
Unexcavated Area of Mound E. [Topographical and excavation maps of the Harappa site.]
Trench 54 top plan
Overall Plan of Trench 54, showing the location of features noted in the previous slides.
Trench 54 section plan
Section view through Trench 54. Note the location of the steatite bead-working dump.
Trench 54 detail plan
Detail top plan of the workshop for making steatite and faience beads and inscribed tablets in Trench 54 South.
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.
Eastern edge of Mound E
A large number of seals and inscribed objects were discovered in excavations on the eastern edge of Mound E from 1993 to 1997. This view of excavations in Trench 10W shows two rooms of houses along the edge of a north-south street.
Trench 11
Excavations in 1998 expanded the area of Trench 11 which lies to the west of Trench 10 on Mound E in order to recover seals and inscribed objects inside actual houses.
Eastern edge of Mound E
Clearing the ancient Harappan debris from the eroded surface outside of the mud brick city wall at the eastern edge of Mound E. In 1997 this area of Trench 11 was cleared to define the stratigraphic sequence between Period 3B and 3C.
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.
City Wall
The curving line of the mud brick city wall at the eastern edge of Mound E rose high above the level of an ancient street that followed the exterior of the wall.