The Indus Civilization c6.48

c6.48

A device which, like several others, was evidently used as a talisman is a heart-shaped motif which most frequently appears in the form of shell inlay, and so closely resembles the ear of one of the statues that the writer is inclined to think that they are identical. Another symbol very extensively used is derived from the intersecting circle pattern on the pottery, which shows that the latter was originally by no means a meaningless decoration, though it eventually became so.