The Indus Civilization (Cambridge History of India, Supplementary Volume) c20.29

c20.29

Etched beads of distinctive and identical type, be it repeated, were used by the Harappans and by the citizens of Akkadian Tell Asmar.⁷ Gold disk-beads with axial tube are likewise identified at Mohenjo-daro, on Mesopotamian sites of Early Dynastic III-Akkadian date, and in Troy IIg, about 2300 B.C. A somewhat earlier contact would be indicated if the similarity of the cruciform pattern on a silver ring from Mohenjo-daro with the oblique cruciform pattern on one of the shell-plaques of the gaming-board from the royal tomb PG 789 at Ur be significant.⁸ Similarities of this relatively minor kind cannot, however, be stressed.