Pottery

Mohammad Nawaz (center) and Zaman (right) holding replicas of hand-built Ravi style pottery. Bashir on the left holds an original Ravi bowl-on-stand that dates to around 3300 BCE. >

A terra cotta pestle that may have been used for sanding wooden planks was found discarded along with broken pottery in an early Harappan Period 3B deposit in Trench 54. >

Numerous pots and hearths were discovered in mud-brick buildings along the western edge of the N-S oriented Kot Diji phase street. >

Polychrome "Nal"-ware with figurative design, Tr. II-7 & 9 (Niai Buthi). >

String-cut beaker, section A, layer 1 (Bakkar Buthi). >

Mound AB is covered with bricks and pottery, most of it dating from 3000 to 2000 B.C. >

A Mundigak III (3400-2900 BCE) bowl. J.F. Jarrige writes in The Early Architectural Traditions of Greater Indus as Seen from Mehrgarh, Baluchistan "Work conducted at Mehrgarh has clearly shown that the cultural assemblage of the preurban phases … >

Three Earthen Jars A (f) 28, found 4 feet below surface in trench A (f). No mention of finds of three earthen jars in Trench A (f) by Sahni in ARASI 1924-25. Of the excavations and finds Sahni noted: "In the area between the trench ‘… >

"The pottery found at Harappa is of the light red or brown colour, excepting some specimens which are black. The latter colour is produced by the application of a variety of earth after it has been fired once." >

A small pot dating to the Period 3C of the Harappa Phase (c. 2200-2000 BCE) was found in excavations on Mound E in 1998. This tiny pot contained fired steatite beads similar to those made during the Ravi Phase as well as faience beads and beads made… >