Sahni recognized the object on the right [C 2]as linked to twining as well:"A conical-shaped object with a hole in the base which might have held a wooden stick. Such instruments are used for twining the sacred thread" (p. 13). In the middle is what… >

If this is a late sepulchre in Trench A, as the provisional title suggests, then the structure is from Mound F, and from the same area as the structure in Mound F burial structure [published in ARASI 1924-25 as Plate XXIV (a)]. Sahni not… >

Three earthen jars found in the southern portion of the summit of site B, from E. A large and two smaller jars, one with a conical base. Of the excavations at the top of Mound B Sahni noted: “The past year’s excavations show that the upper p… >

Small cell behind later sepulchre in trench A (e) in which a number of pointed jars with bones were found. There is no mention in ARASI 1924-25 of a sepulchre in Trench A (e) with pointed jars with bones. Of a sepulchre from a later p… >

"In January 1921, Rai Bahadur Daya Ram Sahni sank in the north-western part of this mound the diagonal Trench A, 16 ft. wide and 500 ft. long from south-east to north-west, starting from the centre of the mound and reaching almost to its north-weste… >

This excerpt refers to mound F excavations in Extension Ab. "Another trial trench which had to be cut through a thick layer of earth and debris revealed a huge mass of broken earthen vessels of different shapes and designs varying in size from sm… >

A view of a large trench with structures, of bricks. Sahni excavated four large pits in section B of Mound AB, which he described as: “Four large pits, each 50' square, were sunk simultaneously in a line in the southern portion of mound B, which… >

Nine seals: square, rectangular and oval. In three, the script can be clearly seen. The rest depict geometric motifs, of which one is described as svastika. Two published in Vats 1940: Plate XCV, nos. 396 and 400; Find numbers: AB 2545 and Ab 4… >

Two rows of small objects, three in one row. Four are round, one cylinder and one conical. All from Pit III, find nos. 69, 71, 72, A49 and ?69. >

Published in ARASI 1924-25, Plate XXV (a). Title: ‘Harappa: Mound B, General View from East’. “A large trench excavated in mound B (Plate XXV a) behind the Naugaza tomb during my operations of 1920-21 and 1923-24 had revealed fragments o… >