The Indus Civilization c6.5

c6.5

The numerous pottery figurines from Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, however, provide the investigator with more definite information on the subject of deities. A very common figurine is that of a female, nude save for a very abbreviated skirt secured by a girdle round the loins (Pl. I, 1). These figures wear much jewellery and a curious fan-shaped headdress with two cup-like objects, one on either side, although in some specimens this last feature is much more pronounced than in others. Several of these cups have smoke-stains inside, which suggests that oil or little pellets of incense were burned in them, in order that the goddess might hearken to the petitions of the worshipper.