Steatite Unicorn Seals
It is worth noting that in these earlier reports, seals were photographed in their original form. In Vats' monograph, photographs of the stamp seals were mostly taken from plaster casts of the originals, i.e.
Ancient Indus Valley civilization seals
Steatite Seals
These steatite seals are depicted in Sahni's report for 1923-24, although only only is described and its location provided.
The four seals are listed clockwise from the top left.
Seal 1: (Sahni Pl XIX, 13)
Seal 2: Mound A-B, Stratum V (Sahni, Pl XIX,
Faience button seal
Faience button seal (H99-3814/8756-01) with swastika motif found on the floor of Room 202 (Trench 43).
Kot Diji phase elephant seal - obverse
Obverse of an unfinished elephant seal (H2000-4474/8994-01) in steatite from the Kot Diji phase levels at Harappa. This is the earliest seal with an elephant motif known from the region and may have been a prototype for later Indus seals.
Glazed steatite, faience bead, and unfinished steatite seal
Glazed steatite gaming piece, faience bead, and unfinished steatite seal (H99-3860/8756-30) from Room 202 (Trench 43).
Kot Diji phase elephant seal - reverse
View of the reverse of the elephant seal (H2000-4474/8994-01) from the Kot Diji phase levels, shows manufacturing marks and traces of a perforated knob or boss that is characteristic of Early Harappan seals.
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.
Four Unicorn Seals Harappa
Published in ARASI 1924-25, Plate XXVIII, figs. 21, 22, 23 and 24.
Title of Plate: ‘Seals and Other Objects’
Labelled, from left to right: “(24) Pit I 42”; “(21) Pit I 39”; “(22) Pit I 40”; “(23) Pit I 41”.
Field no: 42, 39, 40 and 41
Found in
Harappa Seal
Published in Vats 1940, plate XCII, No 296.
The published version is the other way up.
Title: Seal
Found in Mound AB. Vats noted the provenance as:
“In squares P 18/11 and 12 are the remains of an oblong room measuring 14 by 12 ft. internally (PI.