Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.160

c12.160

fisherman carrying two nets suspended from a pole across his shoulders, with a fish and what is probably a turtle near his feet, which rest on a cross-hatched band, presumably the river by which he is walking. Fragments of another pot, from a late phase of the site's history, show that it originally had an ambitious series of panels round its circumference, in which naturalistic scenes alternated with metopes of chequer-work. The surviving scenes show, first of all the boughs of a tree with a bird seated on one of them, by which is a doe suckling her kid, with two birds, a fish and a star in the upper part of the panel; and secondly a man with one hand raised and the other touching his head, and a child with upraised arms, with two fishes and a cock in the field. Fragments of two other panels show a tree, the head and arm of a man, and perhaps a hooded cobra on one, and on the other a large branching tree.