Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.99

c11.99

The typical painted decoration on Kulli ware consists of zones of non-representational motifs between which, in many instances, runs a frieze of naturalistic representations of animals and plants. This frieze forms the major content of the pot’s ornament, and forms a single continuous band around the pot. Metaphorically it is conceived in the manner of a cylinder-seal rather than the arrangement in Nal ware of animals within close square metopes, which might be compared to the stamp-seal idea. The frieze represents a standard scene, in which two animals, usually humped cattle but sometimes felines, dominate, in grotesquely elongated form, a landscape with formalized trees and sometimes ancillary rows of diminutive, very stylized goats FIG. 6. Typical Kulli Ware (red paint stippled)