Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.116

c11.116

The geometric ornament used in conjunction with the foregoing motifs, or by itself, is varied, very rarely in panels and normally in zones. A wavy hatched band between horizontal lines is characteristic, and this is sometimes carried out in relief on raised cordons applied to the body of the pot. Double triangles, point-to-point, form one of the rare metopic patterns; hatched triangles and diamonds and lines of solid triangles point-to-base are frequent. A band of pendent loops is another common pattern, and the ‘sigma’ and the ‘eye’ motif of a dot within a circle or oval are also common. Red paint is sometimes used as a second colour in the form of broad horizontal bands above and below the main decorative zone of the vessel.