The Indus Civilization c11.5

c11.5

Dr. Frankfort has also unearthed at Tell Asmar fragments of a pottery whose surface was ornamented with knobs or pimples of clay, a type that has not yet been discovered at any other site in Mesopotamia and which is certainly foreign to that country. This knobbed ware also occurs at Mohenjo-daro and is certainly the work of an Indus Valley potter; one of the vessels unearthed is a small replica of a type of storage jar in general use in the city (Pl. O, 3). There is, therefore, strong reason to believe that the Tell Asmar specimens were imported from India. The shapes of the Mesopotamian examples are, it is true, unlike any yet found at Mohenjo-daro, but as the latter are very diverse in form it is quite likely that something which tallies in shape with the Tell Asmar pottery may yet come to light. As is the case with the seals, about the same date can be assigned to the knobbed pottery found on both sites; peculiar heart-shaped pieces of bone inlay which have been found at Tell Asmar also correspond with the shell inlay of the same date which was common both at Harappa and at Mohenjo-daro.