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Black and White Ancient Indus Civilization Images

Pottery

[Original 1931 text] "The ancient pottery of Mohenjo-daro frequently has sand or ime, or both, mixed with the clay, more often in the painted ware than in the plain ware. There seems to have been a natural admixture of sand in the alluvial clays use… >

VS Area, Section A. Block I, House II: Room 23, showing brick floor with dyeing troughs

[Original 1931 caption] "House II. - Rooms 1 to 26, covering a rectangular area of 86 ft. 10 in. by 64 ft. 5 in. to the north of the building just described, appear originally to have belonged to one and the same house, which had two entrances openi… >

K.N. Dikshit (CLOSE)

  • K.N. Dikshit 13 (CLOSE)

"K. N. Dikshit 2nd from the top row in the middle wearing a pagadi. It was given by a society to distinguish him as a scholar amongst scholars." >

Mohenjodaro Stairs in Granary

Mohenjo:daro: brick staircase forming part of rebuilt super structure of Great Granary (excavated 1950). >

Harappa East of Naugaza Tomb

Daya Ram Sahni continues his narrative after the ringstone discussion on the Mound AB excavations: "The floor level of the building referred to above was reached at the depth of about thirteen feet below the surface of the mound. The portion of t… >

Faience Tablet and Button Seals

"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. In the former direction, that part which lies to the north of corridor e was… >

Large Embedded Jar Harappa

Large Jar embedded in the south site of a small wall in front of a tiny cell near wall No. 17 in A (b). Photograph of a jar insitu. Sahni excavated a long Trench A in Mound F, which Vats reported in detail: “In order to trace some… >

Excavations on Site B from S.W.

Published in ARASI 1924-25, Plate XXV (b). Title: ‘Harappa: Mound B, A large brick building’. “Stratum No. 5 was occupied by a brick building of considerable dimension (Plate XXV a [this should be b]) which came to light 24’ below the hi… >

Steatite and Faience Seals and Tablets

  • Seven seals

The seals are numbered 1-7 from top left to bottom right. Seal 1: Mound A-B Sahni writes: "The seventh stratum will probably be found to be occupied by a building of considerable magnitude though so far only a portion of it… >

Harappa Excavations in Trench A (b)

  • Excavation in Mound F Trench A(b)

Trench A(b) is one of eastward trenches cut by Daya Ram Sahni in Mound F. "In order to trace some more walls of the two blocks of of the Great Granary Mr. Sahni made a few stray extensions about the centre of Trench A both towards the east and we… >

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