Published in ARASI 1924-25, Plate XXIV (a). Caption: Harappa: Mound F, A burial structure resembling a modern samadhi unearthed in Trench A (e) .
Described by Sahni as: "a horizontal platform of a single course of bricks laid flat and protected on three sides by bricks standing upright on the narrow edge" [ARASI 1924–25, p. 75].
This structure is from the "uppermost stratum" which "yielded, besides a number of fragmentary walls, a well preserved sepulchre constructed with burnt bricks of the usual size and lying east to west (Plate XXIV, a) with probably another structure of the same kind adjoining it on the south side but placed at right angles to it. The former structure [i.e. the one in the photograph] consists of a horizontal platform of a single course of bricks laid flat and protected on three sides by bricks standing upright on the narrow edge. The roof was composed of an inclined plane of a single course of bricks. Brick by brick the upper layer was removed to examine the contents of the structure which were found to consist of fine brick concrete and earth with a number of very small pieces of charred bone which, though too small to be identified, must undoubtedly have belonged to a cremated human body."
- Daya Ram Sahni, ARASI 1924–25, p. 75.
Sahni’s description is quoted in Vats 1940, p. 49.
The structure appears in Vats 1940, Vol. Plate X(d) ‘Brick-on-edge pavement of stratum I in Trench Ae.
Noting Sahni’s description Vats added: "This structure, as will appear from Pl. X, d, is nothing more than a small brick-on-edge pavement of the usual type with a border of bricks standing on edge, and the second one to its south is another composed of bricks laid flat. No receptacle for bones was found in either of them. On the other hand, similar brick concrete mixed with numerous bits of charred and uncharred bones, both above and below the level of these Boors, is still found at the same spot. My experience, based on much larger operations at this place, is that Harappa-specially in the latex strata-is so full of bones that they come out in greater or lesser quantities, wherever the mounds are dug, due no doubt to the fact that the inhabitants depended a great deal on animal food, perhaps, to an even larger extent than did the people of Mohenjo-daro. The presence of fine brick concrete and earth would seem to indicate that the bone fragments, as at so many other places, were a part of the foundation concrete or debris and not confined merely to the above pavements. Perhaps, I may also add that in the large area which has since been excavated on this and other mounds at Harappa, not a single sepulchre has so far been met with. I shall deal with the subject of cremation and the probable form that it may have taken in Chapter VIII."
- Madho Sarup Vats, 1940, p. 49.