The Indus Civilization c7.20

c7.20

Carnelian, jadeite, and steatite beads have already been mentioned in describing the girdle and necklaces, but beads have also been discovered in a variety of other materials. These include riband-jasper, red, yellow, and blue jasper, agate, moss-agate, onyx, amazon-stone, heliotrope, plasma, lapis-lazuli, tachylite, chalcedony, nepheline-sodalite, shell, pottery, faience, vitreous paste, quartz, breccia, serpentine, turquoise (very rare), and hæmatite (very rare); all the stones in this list, with the exception of turquoise, could have been obtained in various parts of India, Afghanistan, and Baluchistan.