Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.s1.19

c11.s1.19

The development of the pottery in RG IIIc is very well shown at the site of Periano Ghundai. Here the red slip as a background is constant, and painting on this is in black alone, while the brush-work has become coarser. A common shape is the small beaker or bottle with a solid pedestal foot, and this type serves to link the Nal settlement with this phase (Fig. 15). There are a couple of sherds from Periano Ghundai with fairly naturalistic animals painted on them (probably a deer and a bull), and two more have fishes depicted, but otherwise the decoration is all geometric. Some fragments with hatched zones suggest comparison with Sistan sherds, though at these sites the painting is black on buff.