An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c45.116

v2.c45.116

The small finds are numerous and varied. The recovered coins, nearly 200 in number, include six silver punch-marked [3.1], one of the Indo-Greek Antimachos Nikephoros and a few of the Kushans, Yaudheyas and late Indo-Sassanians. Gold is represented by a thin bead, perhaps an amulet, a leaf with a winged lion head in repouseé and a heart-shaped thin piece. The copper objects include a bell [6.3], small jars, a circular disc finger rings and ear rings, a long nail-extractor and an awl. Of the iron objects large hatchets, a cobbler's scraper, the mouth-piece of a bellow, double-edged daggers, sickles, chisels, crucibles [16.4]—all from a blacksmith's workshop—door accessories, ladles, hanging lamps [6.11] and a limited number of barbed arrowheads and spearheads deserve mention. Dicing was a favourite amusement: two cubical dice [6.7.1] of terracotta are marked with shallow holes one to six in number in a way that the sum of the holes on each pair of opposite sides total seven; others are however marked differently. The marks on ivory dice are concentric circles.