The Indus Civilization c9.43

c9.43

Few of the smaller seal-amulets show such good workmanship, not on account of their size, but because objects of this type seem to have belonged to almost everyone, a fact which would necessitate a certain amount of mass-production. Even the more elaborate scenes, some of which have already been described, are not executed with particular skill; they convey the impression that the engraver was principally concerned with the task of portraying these religious episodes correctly.