Published in ARASI 1924-25, Plate XXVI (b). Title: ‘Mound B, Pit I, A Long Drain with Gabled Roof’
Description of the find ARASI 1924-1925, pp. 79-80:
"Four large pits, each 50’ square were sunk simultaneously in a line in the southern portion of mound B, which has an average elevation of 40’ above the surrounding plain. …The only structures reclaimed in pit I were two cells occurring at the depths of 3’ and 10’ respectively, which might have been kitchens or baths, and a well preserved drain composed of brick with a gabled roof which was exposed for a length of 43’ (Pl. XXIV, b). It is choked up with mud mixed with charcoal and ashes, apparently the washings of a kitchen. The minor antiquities comprised four well preserved seals … of an unusually large size and with deep cut pictographs (Pl. XXVIII, fig. 21-24)."
- Daya Ram Sahni, ARASI 1924-25, p. 79-80. Photograph in ARASI 1924-25, Plate XXVI (b). For the seals, see No. 63, in the 1924-25 Harappa excavation list.
"The open space in front of the long wall, and the water chute and drain openings referred to above all drained away towards the east through a gable-roofed drain which has been traced for a length of 130 ft. (Pl. XXXl). This drain, originally constructed in the IVth Period, was subsequently utilised by builders of the IIIrd Period. At its western end, abutting on to south were found four large earthenware jars (Pl. XXXIII, a). Of these, the higher one belonged to the llnd stratum, and the remaining three to the III rd. Of the latter, the right hand jar had no connection with the drain, but the other two, which are connected with each other and enclosed round the month by square brick reservoirs, were embedded in the ground (Pl. XXXIII, a). Spill water from the eastern jar flowed through a narrow and shallow drain into the western jar (Pl. XXXIV, c), which is embedded at a lower level, since it was also fed from the south by another contemporary drain with a 6-inch sq. opening (Pl. XXXII, b, right ground centre). To lodge silt in the two jars and ensure proper functioning of the gabled roofed drain only the surplus water from the western jar was allowed to pass into it by means of an overflow channel seen in PL XXXIII, a. West of these jars this drain now extends for 3 ft. 4 in. only. At this point its roof is flat, not gabled."
"At a distance of 50 ft. from the existing west end of this drain there is a jar lined rubbish-pit I ft. 11 in. deep, and 53 ft., still further east, another brick lined pit 2 ft. 7 in. sq. and l ft. 7 in. deep. Both of these pits belong to the IVth stratum and were constructed along with the original drain."
"The gable-roofed drain, described above, having ended abruptly on the cast, I dug deeper at this point and discovered, 4 ft. 4 in. below its foundation, another well-built drain of the Vth stratum laid in a packing of mud bricks (Pl. XXXII, c)."
- Vats, M.S. 1940, I, p. 155.
The drain mapped in Plate XXXI: Plan and Section of the Extensions of Pits I and II, Mound AB (Vol. II). Described in text (Vol. I) as "has been traced for a length of 130 ft."
Daya Ram Sahni sank four pits in the southern part of Mound AB in 1924-25, Of these Vats "linked up Pits I and II in the year 1926- 27 by sinking between them a long, narrow trench, measuring 260 ft. from east to west and varying in width from 13 to 30 ft. The reason for extending this particular part of the excavation," he reported, "was that in Pit I a gable-roofed drain of Stratum IV, going from west to east, had already been brought to light by the Rai Bahadur," and he "was anxious to follow up and ascertain what buildings it was connected with. Accordingly, in the year 1927-28 the whole length of this trench except 66 ft. at its eastern end, was expanded into a large rectangle measuring 194 ft. from east to west by 137 ft. from north to south (Pl. XXXI)." [Vats 1940, Vol. 1, p. 145]