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Ancient Indus Valley civilization seals

Harappa Excavations, Three Seals

2817

"Among the antiquities found here was a seal die (No. A 214), Plate IX, Photos. Nos. 2817 a-b. It is square in shape, along each, side and provided with a round projection on the reverse pierced with a hole for the string by which it was suspended.

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Three Seals [Backs], Harappa

2817b

"The discovery at Harappa of the very remarkable seal illustrated in figure 1 of Cunningham's Plate XXXIII in this volume [see Image 2 above] and later of a few more now in the British Museum, suggested that at this site we have the remains of a city

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Terminal Sign

Iravatham Mahadevan believes that the terminal sign used here is actually a combination of two signs. The bottom part (figure carrying) denotes a bearer of office.

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Prehistoric Seals from Mohenjo-daro and Harappa

ENGRAVED WITH A PICTOGRAPHIC SCRIPT UNLIKE ANY PREVIOUSLY KNOWN INDIAN ALPHABET, BUT SOMEWHAT RESEMBLING MYCENAEAN PICTOGRAPHS: PRE-HISTORIC SEALS FROM MOHENJO-DARO AND HARAPPA [From Sir John Marshall's story in the issue describing the finds and

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A newly discovered button seal fragment, Harappa

A fragment of a button seal, newly discovered at the site in 1998.

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Seals from Harappa and Mohen-jodaro with an Unknown Form of Picture Writing

BEARING FIGURES OF BULLS AND MYSTERIOUS PICTOGRAPHIC SYMBOLS, SOME RESEMBLING ROMAN NUMERALS: PREHISTORIC INDIAN SEALS FROM HARAPPA AND MOHENJO-DARO WITH AN UNKNOWN FORM OF PICTURE WRITING

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Faience Tablet and Button Seals

494

"In order to trace some more walls of the two blocks of the Great Granary Mr. Sahni made a few stray extensions about the centre of Trench A both towards the east and west.

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Three Inscribed Unicorn Seals

491

These three seals all have the same unicorn animal motif and a ritual container placed below the head of the animal. The script location and carving styles indicate that the seals belong to different time periods.

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Three Inscribed Unicorn Seals

2817a

Seals are numbered left to right. Seal 1: [no description found] Seal 2: A263, Mound F, north-western end of Trench A "Westward along the north-western end of Trench A Mr. Sahni made another extension. It is 90 ft.

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Three Inscribed Seals

3394

The central unicorn seal is the same as the one pictured earlier. The rectangular seal fragment on the left is a style of seal without any animal motif and starts to be found at Harappa starting around 2450-2200 BCE (Harappa Period 3B) and 2200-1900

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