Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c16.s2.t1.17

v1.c16.s2.t1.17

This Malwa ware occurs at Malwa sites in great profusion, so much so that at Navdatoli, nearly three-fourths of the pottery yield is this ware. The fossil forms in the ware comprise a water vessel, the typical Indian *loṭā* channel spouted cups and pedestalled goblets. The excavator thinks that the channel spouted cups appear to have been copied from a metal prototype which must be very similar to that from the Khurdi copper hoard in Rajasthan. The drinking goblets or champagne glasses have turned up only from Navdatoli and not from any other site of Malwa Culture. Thus, on the basis of this evidence, Sankalia suggests a foreign (West Asian) contact or influence with this culture. However an indigenous development from the pinched lip to the channel spout through the short channel cannot be ruled out. The idea of a direct influence from Iran is not warranted and not suggested even by Sankalia.