The Indus Civilization c9.36

c9.36

The steatite statue described in another chapter is a creditable piece of sculpture, but it must be remembered that this particular stone is so soft that it can be cut with a knife. Other figures made of slightly harder stones, like alabaster and limestone (Pl. H, 1a), are not quite so well finished, though they show more artistic merit, three of the best preserved statue heads from Mohenjo-daro being quite as fine as anything of the same date from Mesopotamia, although falling much below the standard of the Egyptian statuary of the Old Kingdom.