Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c13.19

c13.19

The copper stamp-seals from Shahi-tump, five of which were found, are even more explicit in their western relationships (Fig. 26). They are all of one distinctive type, and it is significant that the only other example from Baluchistan comes from the final phase of the Sohr Damb at Nal, and is perhaps to be associated with its destruction by burning. They are all circular, with a simple pattern on their faces built up in compartments by projecting strips of metal, and seals of generally similar type have been found in Hissar IIb and IIIb, in Anau III and at Susa, in a context which suggests a date about 2000 B.C. or a little later. And, as we shall see shortly, at least one similar seal is known from Sind, where it is later than the Harappā period. The evidence is therefore strongly in favour of regarding these metal objects in the Shahi-tump cemetery as indicating a date after 2000 B.C., and associated with movements from the west.