The Indus Civilization c10.15

c10.15

A large number of small cones of hard-baked pottery, shell, or, more rarely, stone, are difficult to explain, but as the once sharp points of many of them are missing, they are likely to have been tools or play-things. Their small size makes it evident that they were not used for decoration, as were certain pottery cones from Sumer. It has been suggested that they are miniature ninepins and that the marbles that are found were used to knock them down. As many of these objects tend to rock when stood upright, this seems a very probable explanation.