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Black and White Ancient Indus Civilization Images

Dholavira Symbols

A 10 lettered signboard found in the western chamber of North Gate of Castle, (c. 2500-1900 BC). There are ten symbols in the panel. One symbol has been repeated four times. These symbols are indicative of use in Stage IV of Harappan Culture. These … >

Terracotta Bangles found in Large Chatis

Among the objects found in the large earthen chati [A 233] and a second example which would have been most familiar to Daya Ram Sahni were "earthenware bangles of various sizes were found in large abundance. A few complete specimens were fo… >

Three Inscribed Unicorn Seals

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. The right hand seal probably dates … >

Sculpture in thickness of wall

Sculpture in thickness of wall in the N.E. corner of pit II from S.E. The photograph is of brick structure, with a label PII 99. No sculpture is visible. PII is Pit II, AB Mound, and Sahni stated that: “No structural remains were met with in t… >

Earthen Jar No. 95

Earthen Jar no. 95 found in Pit IV. Broken jar. Sahni, however, noted “large sized funerary urns” from Pit II, but only a cell and a covered brick drain and “no other objects of any kind” from Pit IV. - Daya Ram Sahni ARASI 1924-25 >

Three Inscribed Unicorn Seals

  • Three seals

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… >

Late Brick Wall and Granary

  • Trench Bf

Note that Trench Bf was subsumed by Trench B over subsequent seasons. "The operations were then shifted to the mound marked A—B in General Cunningham's plan, on the east side of which some trial diggings had been carried out in the year 1920-21… >

Block of Parallel Walls

View of the parallel wall area, Mound F, noted subsequently by Vats as the eastern part of the Great Granary. For Sahni’s and Vats’s description of the excavations of this area see Parallel Walls. See Plate III Vats 1940 Vol II, for a ‘Plan of… >

Pit I Harappa

View of Pit I, in southern portion of Section of B, Mound AB, showing remains of brick lined structures and a few large earthen jars insitu. Sahni reported: “Four large pits, each 50' square, were sunk simultaneously in a line in the sou… >

Terracotta Figurines including Female

Three are female, the fourth, second from left is of the lower part of a finely modelled figure. Find no. A 127. Right: has a thick braid. Second from right: wears “a distinctive headdress which rises fan like from back of the head… a close fi… >

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