An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c36.30

v2.c36.30

The principal ceramic of the Pd is the characteristic black-on-red Jorwe painted pottery [11.11] represented by the concave-sided carinated bowl, spouted vessel and high-necked jar. Associated with this is a coarse red/grey ware which continues from Pd I. Huge storage jars are entirely handmade; they are sometimes decorated with incised and applied patterns. The tool outfit of the preceding Pd continues in this Pd also. The people worshipped the mother goddesses [12.6], one variety with head and the other headless. In a house belonging to the early levels of this Pd have been found in a small corner hole an oval clay box containing a mother goddess figurine and over the box another figurine but without head and a clay bull. All the objects are unbaked inidcating their occasional use. There is also a clay ring in which the figurine could be kept in a standing position during worship. But the most noteworthy feature is blind hole in the abdomen of the female figurine and a similar hole in the body of the bull. When a stick is inserted through both, the mother goddess snugly sits over the bull. The headless figurine recalls to one’s mind the goddess Viśīrā of the *Mahābhārata* who is supposed to be connected with the welfare of children.