The Indus Civilization c9.38

c9.38

A few of the stone figures of animals in the round, principally models of a short-horned bull, are of good, if not remarkable, workmanship, although the same animal made in clay is sometimes much more spirited and lifelike. A small figure of a mastiff in steatite is, however, extraordinarily realistic, the folds of skin on the head and neck being perfectly portrayed. The smaller stone figures are, in every case, superior to the larger specimens, probably because the steatite of which the former was made was far easier to work than the inferior limestone and alabaster employed for the latter.