Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c6.s1.20
Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c6.s1.20
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cruder varieties seem to be local imitations. The ware is particularly characteristic of the South Indian areas reached by Roman trade in the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D. with an appropriate extension in the north-east to Tamluk, the ancient Tamralipti or Ptolemy's Tamalites, in Bengal,⁹ and a stray sherd in the far north-west at Jhukar in Sind.¹⁰