The Indus Civilization c6.43

c6.43

Apart from the clay and copper tablets, amulets of other kinds are somewhat rare. Among them are included the squirrel, the couchant ram, the hare, the antelope, and the dog, made in such diverse materials as pottery, stone, faience, or bronze, and perforated so that they might be attached to a necklace. Little figures of doves in hard stone or clay may have been worn as fertility charms, while two steatite amulets that have lately come to light are not at all unlike the dad, or "stability" amulet of ancient Egypt, except that the Indian specimens have a ring-like attachment at the side.