Daya Ram Sahni found objects he quickly called "inkpot[s] of the shape used in old type Pathsalaif and maktabs to this day" (p. 13). One of these was found in Trench C – "No. C. 2 has three holes in the mouth for the string" (p.
Three more examples, all from Mound F, of what Daya Ram Sahni immediately identified as inkpots.
"The other portable antiquities recovered in this Mound F, though not numerous, all point to a high antiquity.
Another class of objects, even if incomplete, were also immediately familiar to Day Ram Sahni:
"(16) An earthen instrument for making twines. It is a curved shaped piece with five holes, one of which is broken off.