An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c42.246

v2.c42.246

Various schemes of sewerage in Patna in the 1920s resulted in the discovery of an enormous number of terracotta figurines and beads and large quantities of pottery, not properly studied. Unsystematically dug up and utterly unrecorded, the proceeds, now in the Patna Museum, consist of an undifferentiated mass, intrinsically very valuable but of little chronological significance. The terracottas have been relegated on stylistic grounds to the Maurya, Śuṅga Kushan and rarely Gupta periods (Gupta, 1965) and prove in bulk the great subsoil potentiality of Patna.