Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.98

c11.98

There is a varied repertoire of forms, the only type certainly due to Harappā influence being dishes-on-stands. Globular beakers, small-based flasks, tall bottle-shaped vases, small flat dishes and straight-sided cups are common, and an individual and distinctive form is a squat straight-sided jar (Fig. 6). Large storage vessels, sometimes painted and sometimes plain, have a globular profile and applied cordons on the shoulders, sometimes with an applied wavy band as well. The tall, cylindrical, perforated vessels, which might be braziers or cheese-presses, are, however, so similar to Harappā types as to be probably intrusive.