Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.157

c12.157

The treatment of the bodies of the animals and birds is best compared to those of the Kulli style, with thick outlines inside which a cross-hatching or series of parallel strokes fills up the space. There is a tendency to horizontal elongation, more appropriate to Kulli than to the northern region, where vertical distortion can be traced so clearly through the RG II and III sequence; and some of the pots have scenes which really do recall Kulli very remarkably. There is, for instance, a pot with buff slip and from a very late context at Mohenjo-daro which has an elongated deer or goat with cross-hatched body standing in a landscape filled with dot-and-circle and cross-hatched blobs, with a secondary animal (probably a jackal) and a spiky-branched tree. Although the style is not pure Kulli, it looks like an import from that region late in the city's history. But at Chanhu-daro representations of the ibex and antelope occur on pottery of normal painted Harappā type from the main period of occupation of the site, and similar scenes appear at Harappā itself.