An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c19.s14.1

v1.c19.s14.1

Specific evidence for artificial moulding of water through reservoirs is not forthcoming in the Harappa civilization [4.9] except the Great Bath at Mohenjo-daro (Marshall, 1931, 1, pp. 131-50), but certainly the Harappa economy, like the Egyptian and Babylonian ones, rested on irrigation farming [16.1]. The brick dockyard of LOTHAL with its massive embankment walls measuring 212·4 m on the w., 209·3 m on the e., 34·7 m on the s. and 36·4 m on the n. is a unique structure. In the early Chalcolithic [4.14.6] contexts at INAMGAON an embankment wall, 2·2 m wide, of rubble set in mud mortar has been traced to a length of 240 m. This formed part of a tank which was provided with a feeder channel connected to the river close by.