The object published in ARASI 1924-25, Plate XXVII (h)

The object has been photographed from a distance in this, in comparison to the published photograph. The scale in front and a rod/scale at the back of the object is visible in both photographs.

Caption for all figures in Plate XXVII, ARASI 1924-25: Harappa: Terracotta and Other Objects.

Description in ARASI 1924-25, p. 80: ‘Red Stone Ring’

From Pit II, of the four pits dug in the southern portion of Mound B.

Sahni: “Another object of note which was found 1 ½’ below the copper vessel is a red stone ring (P. II, 20, Plate XXVII, h), plain at the base but having four projections at the top and a round hollow cut into it on one side which might have served the same purpose as the ring stones referred to above, or have been a finial or the crown of an image. No structural remains were met with in this trench until the excavation reached the depth of 12’ where a portion of a solidly built house was brought to light” (ARASI 1924-25, p. 80).

Published in Plate LXXXIII 20, Vats 1940, Vol. II

Title of plate: ‘Stone Vessels, Mace Heads and Objects of Technical Interest in Stone and Faience’

Vats described it as a quatrefoil cone of alabaster:
“The two quatrefoil cones with flat bases illustrated in PI. LXXXIII, 20 and 21 may also have been yonis [footnote 2: Cf. M.I.C., pp. 61-63]. Such cones are commonly made of alabaster and measure 2.35 to 3.2 in. in height, by 2.5 to 3 in. in diameter across the base, and are pierced through the centre with a cylindrical hole 0.9 to 1.1 in. in diameter. They also have in the centre of one of the foils a tubular drill hole 0.6 to 0.8 in. in diameter of which the purpose is not clear.” (1940, p. 371)