The Indus Civilization c9.18

c9.18

A very curious kind of pottery jar is one ornamented on the outside with knobs in rows set closely together (Pl. O, 3). It is uncertain whether jars of this kind were actually made at Mohenjo-daro, as only a few have been unearthed; Dr. Frankfort has found similar ware at Tell Asmar in Babylonia which he regards as imported, and, what is still more interesting, the Tell Asmar examples come from a level of approximately the same date as that assigned to Mohenjo-daro and Harappa. Such discoveries as this have now occurred often enough to convince most authorities that our dating of Mohenjo-daro is correct within one or two centuries.