The Indus Civilization (Cambridge History of India, Supplementary Volume) c17.138

c17.138

It would be of interest to know a great deal more than we know at present about the chronology of the Indus seals. Mesopotamian contacts will be discussed later (p. 84). Meanwhile, it is only at Harappā that some hint of a sequence has been recovered in the Indus valley itself. There, in Mound F, the excavator observed that in the lower levels seals of what may be described as the normal type gave place to miniature seals measuring from 0·7 to 0·36 in. in length, from 0·6 to 0·2 in. in width, and from 0·13 to 0·05 in. in thickness. At the lowest level reached (the "sixth stratum") seals of this category were the only ones found.¹