Published in ARASI 1924-25, Plate XXVIII.
Title of plate: ‘Seals and Other Objects’
Four unicorn seals, a rhomboidal seal, and rectangular seals. The provenance for some provided in the object label quoted below.
From left to right
A. Top row:
Left: No. 12; and in Vats 1940, Vol. II, Plate XCI, no. 255. Rhomboidal Steatite Seal; see for details Two Button Seals.
Middle: No. 6, Ab 130; and in Vats 1940, Vol. II, Plate XCII, no. 269.
Right: No. 1, “Trench A, 11’ below surface”
B. Second row:
Left: No. 27, “Pit II, 21”.
Middle: No. 3, “A (e) 106.
Right: No. 2 “A (a) 102”
C. Bottom row:
Left: not published
Second from left: No. 9 “A (f) 97.
Third from left: No. 10, “A (f) 12; Published in Vats Plate CXXXVIII, No. 34
Vats: “No. 34 (Af l2) is a plano-convex disc of burnt steatite decorated with six incised concentric circles and a cabled border. On the underside also it has an incised circle almost touching the inner edge of the border and at the centre a semi-oval hole [0].2 in. in diameter, presumably intended for inserting a metal attachment. Simple in design, this is the most effective temple ornament found at Harappa. Diam. 1-2 in. Mound F, Trench Af; Depth 1 ft. b.s.; Stratum I.” [Vats 1940, p. 443]
Vats noted that: “Temple ornaments were equally popular in burnt steatite, faience, shell and pottery and there is one example in silver also. They take the form of plano convex discs with or without a projecting knob at the top or sometimes of flatfish cones, and are usually provided with an arc-shaped hole or loop for attachment, but the larger convex discs [such as this object] which were made of shell or faience, are holed through the apex” [ibid]
Second from right: No. 25, “Pit II, 1”.
Right: No. 11, “A (f) 113.
Sahni noted that as many as 50 new seals and cylinders were found in 1924-25 from Harappa, which ‘supply a large number of new pictographs” [p. 74]
Daya Ram Sahni, ARASI 1924-25
Madho Sarup Vats 1940, Vol. I.