Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c7.s6.9
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c7.s6.9
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TYPES OF SEALS—The seals from the Indus Valley are of various types, viz. square with perforated boss above, square without boss, sometimes inscribed on both sides; rectangular seals with perforated convex back; rectangular without boss; button seals; cubical seals; round seals with perforated boss; rectangular seals with perforated boss on the back; cylinder seals; round seals without boss and inscribed on both sides. Cunningham published the first seal from Harappa in 1885, but the script on the seals has not been read so far. In Sumer and elsewhere cylinder seals are known of which only six specimens have been found in the Indus Valley.