The Indus Civilization (Cambridge History of India, Supplementary Volume) c17.105

c17.105

Occasionally the pattern is rendered by a background of red paint without cutting (fig. 13, 1-3). For the wider connexions of the trefoil-pattern, see above, p. 64; it was in use in and after the Sargonid period (about 2300 B.C.) in Mesopotamia and nearly a thousand years later in Egypt but is not known to occur on beads outside the Indus valley, and the presumed carnelian prototypes have yet to be found.