Terracotta Feet

"Base of a terracotta image containing feet of a deity with an uncertain, figure between them (B 54)."

- Daya Ram Sahni, Annual Progress Report of the Archaeological Survey [of India], Hindu and Buddhist Monuments, Northern Circle for the Year Ending 31st March 1921, p. x.

"The minor antiquities found in this building included a number of terracotta figurines, and the base of a terracotta statuette, but on this base only the feet of a standing figure now remain, with some uncertain object between them."

- John Marshall, Annual Report of the Director-General of Archaeology in India, 1920-21, p. 17.

"This fragmentary terracotta sculpture is not from the Harappa Phase occupation and is without any doubt dated to a much later occupation of the site, possibly even from the Gupta Period. It appears to be part of a larger carved terracotta panel of a standing image."

- Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, 2021.

ASI Description

B. 54 Base (height 6", width 1 []") of a terracotta statuette with feet of a deity and a smaller stout figure between them. It is difficult to guess the nature of the image with what now remains. The figure between the feet might have been the vehicle of a deity whoever it was. Date uncertain.

[Appendix D] 2813 Base of a terracotta image containing feet of a deity with an uncertain, figure between them (B 54).

[Original caption: Base of a terracotta image containing feet of a deity with an certain figure between them.]

Slide Year

1921: Sahni's First Finds at Harappa

ASI Report

ASI Annual Report 1921

ASI Number

409/86

Punjab Volume

Silver Plate

2813

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