Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c13.47

c13.47

The pottery from both strata is very well made, with a hard red fabric and a brilliant red slip, and the frequent ornament painted on in black has often the same ‘running’ at the edges already commented on in the otherwise totally dissimilar ware from Shahi-tump. Apart from Harappā, this ware is known only from two sites in Bahawalpur State, 150 miles away to the south, on the other side of the Sutlej River. Although its technique in detail is not that of Harappā ware, the use of a black-on-red decorative scheme may imply some sort of relationship, at least within the Red-ware province as a whole, while one of the characteristic forms of the earlier phase of the cemetery is a squat ‘offering-dish’, which itself might be compared with the higher Harappā types. But the decoration takes us into a world entirely removed from that of Harappā.