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Around the Indus in 90 Slides

Bison seal, Mohenjo-daro

This is a flat square double sided seal. On one side, four script symbols are inscribed in reverse, above a bison with head lowered to the feeding trough. A swastika motif turning counter clockwise is carved on the reverse. The seal is perforated from the side along the axis of the animal motif.

Material: gray brown unfired steatite
Dimensions: 2.04 x 2.04 cm, 0.74 cm thickness
Mohenjo-daro, HR 4503
Mohenjo-daro Museum, 50.258, MM 487
Marshall 1931: pl. CX, 311

Seals
Bison
Mohenjo-daro
Photograph
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
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