[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989) › v2.c31.59 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c31.59 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c31.59 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c31.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c31.59) Five structural phases, 1 to 5, were exposed in the Jorwe levels. The houses of Phase 4 were circular huts with a road and a lane, whereas those of the rest were either rectangular or square. Important structures of the Phase I included two potter's kilns, an apsidal sacrificial temple, a crescentic mud structure, perhaps a sacrificial altar, a circular ash-pit connected with rituals relating to children, and mud-wall houses among which one 7 m long and 3·5 m broad, was an interesting example. The largest among the houses was found in Phase 2 (House 38), which originally measured 9 m long and 5 m broad. It had five major floor levels and with each successive floor level the size of the house shrank. One of the potter's kilns, which was fully exposed, measured 5 m square and consisted of a platform, an outer mud wall 1·40 m high and 50 cm broad at the base tapering upwards to 15 cm, the central ash-packing serving as an insulator and the inner thin burnt wall of laminar clay. The kiln was filled with fine gravel used for artificially raising the temperature in the kiln. It had two stake holes. The kiln was divided into two compartments and on the floor of one were found 15 crushed pots. The different painted marks occurring on the Jorwe pots from the kiln suggest that they cannot be considered as 'potter's marks', as has been generally held. A huge jar of handmade ware found close to the kiln had profuse applied decoration of arch designs, human and bull figures and reptiles. - [Previous: v2.c31.58](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c31.58) - [Next: v2.c31.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c31.60) - [Up: v2.c31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c31) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c31.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c31.59) · Pramāṇa