Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c11.s2.14

v1.c11.s2.14

Other materials found at Mohenjo-Daro that deserve notice are bitumen used for water-proofing and other purposes which was probably brought from Isa Khel on the right bank of the Indus or from Mari hills or Sanni in Baluchistan, but might have also come by water from Hit on the Euphrates; red ochre, which is common in Cutch, Central India and Central Provinces, but is also shipped to India in large quantities from Hormuz and other islands on the Persian gulf which produce a specially brilliant variety; green earth (glauconite), which probably came from Baluchistan, though there are many other possible sources, and löllingite, an arsenic mineral which probably came from the Punjab, but is found also in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Persia and Asia Minor. (MS-I, 32)