Pottery

Dating to c. 3100 BCE, this hand-built pot with polychrome decoration is one of the earliest examples of intersecting circle motif in the Indus valley region. This motif along with others, such as the fish scale and pipal leaf designs, continue to b… >

After removal of the overlying sediment it was clear that the pot was filled with beads. Each bead was mapped in and then photographed before removal. In the lower levels were many tiny beads that had settled to the bottom. >

Period 4 globular pot (H99/8763-503) from Trench 43 after reconstruction. (See images 59 & 60). >

Pottery from section IB (Niai Buthi). >

Over-fired Togau D bowl and ring stands (Murda Sang). >

Londo pottery from Hussayn Buthi (B24). >

Close-up of pottery sherds at Harappa excavated during previous years. >

The lid on the left – "shaped like a vase" – shows how varied these objects interpreted as covers could be, including the complex "dish cover" on the right. Sahni concluded, of which these objects fall into the first category: "The excavations we… >

There are several photographs of the earthen jar D27 that was found on Mound A-B. This was one of the earliest complete pots discovered at Harappa. That this pot was one of the images published by Marshall in his announcement in the Illustrated Lond… >

Whereas many other motifs of the Ravi Phase (Period 1) disappear in the later Kot Diji Phase (Period 2), the intersecting circle and fish scale motifs continued to be used, but they came to be executed in black paint on a red slip. In this image the… >