Beads found in room
A banded agate bead (at left), a long terra cotta bead (center) and a cylindrical steatite bead (at right) were all found in the deposits of a room in Trench 54.
Harappa, Punjab ancient Indus civilization excavations, figurines, seals and other objects.
"Fat" female figurine from Harappa
Although most Indus Civilization female figurines are quite curvaceous, some "fat" female figurines are also found. These are often hollow, but sometimes solid.
Modern Harappa
A view of modern Harappa city which is built on top of a large portion of the ancient mound. Many of the streets and houses of the modern town are built directly above earlier streets and houses of ancient Harappa.
Ravi phase steatite microbeads
Tiny steatite microbeads (less than 1mm in diameter) such as those seen here were probably perforated with a sharpened copper wire, while stone drills with larger tips were used for carnelian, lapis, and amazonite beads.
Female Figurines
Early Harappan (Kot Dijian Phase, Period II) female figurines are often broken. On the left is the lower half of a figurine, showing wide hips and pointed legs. On the right is the upper half of a figurine with traces of painting.
Hollow baked brick buttresses
Hollow baked brick buttresses were later built up against the original "granary" structure on top of a shallow mud-brick platform [400] that itself overlies the mud-brick platform of the original "granary". Below these platforms is baked brick wall
A newly discovered button seal fragment, Harappa
A fragment of a button seal, newly discovered at the site in 1998.
Terracotta objects
A number of miscellaneous objects emerged during excavations on Mound F, which contributed the majority of artifacts catalogued in the 1921 ASI report by Daya Ram Sahni.
Different types of beads
The ancient Harappans went to great efforts to obtain exotic colored stones for making beads of different shapes and sizes.
Female figurine nursing an infant from Harappa
The infants being nursed by female figurines are usually very schematically represented by a bent and pinched roll of clay with or without applied eyes.