Left to right: three heads of sculptures, cast in terracotta. From Mound AB. Near the surface.

Second from left: Published in Vats 1940 (Vol. II) Pl LXXII, no. 58

Third from left: Published in Vats 1940 (Vol. II) Pl LXXII, no. 59

Right: Seated, or squatting figure, male, nude, with arms, found broken, touching/behind the knees. For a close variant of a similar figure, see Vats 1940 (Vol. II) Pl LXXVI no 4.

Describing the heads Vats noted that they were found “on the steep slope opposite the door to the tomb of Naugaza Mr. Sahni recovered two more similar cast heads and a few carved bricks (Pl. LXXII 58 and 59) . All the four terracotta heads, including No. 59 of which the headdress is lost and the left side repaired, appear to have been cast in the same mould. From the above finds it is evident that in early Gupta times the summit of this, the highest mound at Harappa, was crowned by some edifice or group of edifices which, like those on the highest eminence at Mohenjodaro, were presumably Buddhist.” (Vats 1940, p. 138)

NOTE: The find numbers of the painted sherds written on the back of the photograph 4680, BW 18, B 742, b 1207.