An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c38.247

v2.c38.247

The top of the city-wall flanking its e., wider here than elsewhere, has been taken to be a wharf or loading-platform, in the s.-w. corner of which was a curious structure regarded as a warehouse, standing on a 4 m high platform with floor-area of 1930 sq m, originally with 64 cubical mud-brick blocks, each 3·6 m square on plan and 1 m high, separated from each other by a 1 m wide passage. While merchandise for loading and unloading from the ships in the dock was piled on the blocks, the passages were meant to be air-vents. As many as 65 terracotta sealings recovered from the warehouse bore impressions of Indus seals on the obverse and of packing material such as bamboo matting, reed, woven cloth and cord on the reverse. A substantial part of the warehouse was destroyed in Pd III and was never rebuilt.