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Game Board

A wide variety of game pieces from Mohenjo-daro on a modern wooden board. Sir John Marshall, one of the earliest excavators at Mohenjo-daro writes in the monumental work summarizing the first finds at the site (Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Civilization

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Female Figurines

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It is appropriate that Daya Ram Sahni quickly found female figurines on Mound F at Harappa as he made the first incisions. Female figurines greatly outnumber those of men at ancient Indus sites.

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Statuette of red stone from Harappa

[Original 1931 text] "The treatment of the red stone torso could hardly be simpler or more direct.

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K. N. Diskhit, Ootacamund, August 20, 1932

"Seated, middle row, is K.N. Dikshit."

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Pointed Base Goblet

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"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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Indus Game Board

Sir John Marshall continues describing the game pieces found at Mohenjo-daro (Mohenjo-daro, pp. 557-59): "The poorer people used gamesmen made of pieces of potsherd roughly rubbed into a suitable shape.

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Wall Construction, Mohenjo-daro [100]

Area not known View of a large fired brick wall along the edge of the mound shows the construction of a later wall along the same alignment, and the infilling of what would have been a small open area or alleyway.

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Female Figurines with Turbanlike headresses

"Figurines with elaborate headdresses and numerous layers of necklaces are usually somewhat larger than the more simple terracotta figurines."

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Tall Flaring Cylindrical Vessel

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This form of tall flaring cylindrical vessel was probably used as a drinking vessel. Seven of these tall jars (referred to as oval jars) were found in a row and many had smaller cylindrical jars inside them.

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The Mundigak Palace Facade and "Hut" Motif from Jiroft

"Two massive mud brick stepped buildings of the mid 3rd millennium BC were actually excavated, one at Tureng Tepe in the Gorgan plain (north-eastern Iran, Deshayes 1997) and a better preserved one at Mundigak in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan

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