An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c44.111

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*Pd II*. In Pd II, covering the two centuries preceding the Christian era, coarse NBPW and coarse grey ware continue in diminishing quantities. A red ware stamped with leaf, floral and *tri-ratna* symbol and often with applied designs is the noteworthy feature of this Pd. The earliest specimen of *makara-mukha* occurs in the late levels of this Pd. Baked bricks are observed for the first time. Each family or a group of families had two rooms having one or two doorways, a vestilule, a domestic well, a bathing platform and an attached baked-brick drain. Sanitary arrangements were sometimes provided by placing soakage jars with perforated bottoms while in other cases the houses had a soak-pit made of terracotta rings. Uninscribed copper cast coins and terracotta seals, some of them bearing names like *Revatimita* in the characters of the 2nd-1st centuries B.C., help to date this Pd.