Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.58

c11.58

The ornamental features common to Amri and to such South Baluchistan sites as Nundara, Kargushki-damb, and some others are in the main as follows. First, a panelled arrangement is common, the panels being outlined horizontally and vertically with multiple lines. Then, within the rectangles so formed, a frequent motif is a secondary panel of black-and-white chequers, outlined by concentric rectangles of alternate red and black lines. Finally there is much use of horizontal (less commonly vertical) bands made of such motifs as solid diamonds corner-to-corner, hatched diamonds, small chevrons, loops (sometimes multiple), the 'sigma' ornament, and 'scale' pattern.