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First Excavations at Harappa
1924-25: A Lost City Emerges

Human bone under an earthen dish cover

Cover of a jar, Terracotta, field number A(i) 160.

Of trench A (i) in Mound F, Sahni: “The trench Ai (100' x 31') excavated to the east of the one described above [A (e)] revealed at the depth of 5' a large mass of earthen bowls with pointed bases which contained ashy earth, potsherds and occasionally pieces of bones.”

- Daya Ram Sahni, ARASI 1924-25, p. 77.

For Vats’s description of Sahni’s trenches A (f) and A (i) see photo 22, and Vats 1940, Vol. I, p. 50.

Vats was critical of Sahni’s interpretation of the possible presence of crematorium platforms or funeral pyres in A (f).

Slide Year
1924-25: A Lost City Emerges
ASI Number
478/86
Punjab Volume
31
Silver Plate
3479
Burials
Harappa
Photograph
Daya Ram Sahni
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