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

Three earthen jars, Trench A

Three Earthen Jars A (f) 28, found 4 feet below surface in trench A (f).

No mention of finds of three earthen jars in Trench A (f) by Sahni in ARASI 1924-25.

Of the excavations and finds Sahni noted: "In the area between the trench ‘Ae ’ described above and the long trench A, a large rectangular cutting A(f), 89' x 66', was made and excavated to the depth of about 6' below the surface. Here, as elsewhere, no complete structural remains were found, but reference may be made to two little circular structures paved in brick on a thick substratum of hard burnt nodules of brick. … Another little structure consists of a paved platform surrounded by a single course of brick laid on-edge which might have been a bathing platform as a large earthen jar was standing on one side of it. … This trench yielded a large number of stone mortars and pestles which recall the practice of burying such objects with the dead in Mesopotamian sites. … Another building in this trench of which only a small fragment had survived, was provided with a spill jar which was photographed in position”.

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

Slide Year
1924-25: A Lost City Emerges
ASI Number
460/86
Punjab Volume
31
Silver Plate
3460
Pottery
Harappa
Photograph
Daya Ram Sahni
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