Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.153

c12.153

Potters' kilns are known from the latest phase of Mohenjo-daro, when the slackening of municipal authority in the days of the city's decline permitted their erection within the residential areas. They are circular, with a stoke-hole and furnace beneath a perforated floor originally covered by a domed roof, and represent a rather more evolved type than that found in Sialk III; they are also comparable with those from Susa and Mesopotamian sites of Early Dynastic date. Six were found in a restricted area at Mohenjo-daro and clearly represent a potters' quarter.