An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c16.s6.t1.4

v1.c16.s6.t1.4

Some pots are painted on the inner side with a fugitive white pigment which has in most cases disappeared leaving only a faint impression of the design elements. The designs are all of frequently repeated linear patterns. The designs encountered mostly on fragmentary sherds are dots, dashes, obliques, strokes, double arches (flying birds of NAVDATOLI [11.10], rows of diamonds, series of hooks (sickle?), small thickened squares and parallel arcs with terminal loops at one end. The channelspouted bowl is occasionally stained with red ochre towards the end of the spouts. Other surface decorations are very rare. Besides grooves around the neck or the rim, occasionally a sherd is found to have on its body either an applied band of cord pattern and incised oblique notches or an incised band with criss-cross pattern. Graffiti are also extremely rare. A sherd bears on the exterior a wedge-shaped design with a vertical line in the middle and on another a motif looks like an unfinished humped bull.