History of Chemistry in Ancient and Medieval India, Incorporating the History of Hindu Chemistry by Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray c15.s1.92

c15.s1.92

Excavations at Sisupalgarh near Bhuvaneswar in Orissa reveal pottery articles which are essentially plain with no paintings and decorations These are usually wheel-turned. Two types of wares, variations of an essentially integral culture, are noticed. In and above the earliest occupation of the site there occurs a type of a fine polished, bright, well-fired red-ware. This is overlapped in the upper level by a degenerate and crude type of coarser wares characterised by indifferent firing and a red or yellow ochreous slip. But the most distinctive type of article, which may be regarded as the typical of the Sisupalgarh Culture, is a knobbed vessel, a bowl-cum-lid, usually in grey or greyish-black colour with or without concentric groovings on the inner base