The Indus Civilization (Cambridge History of India, Supplementary Volume) c12.21

c12.21

No less distinctive of the Jhukar culture are the “button-seals” or seal-amulets, usually circular, which differ radically from the familiar square Harappan type.³ They are alternatively of pottery or faïence, and are for the most part coarsely made. The rare human or animal figures are crude and lack all the delicate realism of the Harappan series. The more usual design is a radiate “solar” pattern, and there are several specimens of the quartered or “compartmented” type,⁴ which seem to bring Chanhu-daro II (Jhukar) into line with Anau III and Hissar III, i.e. perhaps down to the beginning of the second millennium B.C.⁵