The document describes and shows images of pottery from the Indus Valley civilization from around the 3rd millennium BC. It includes pottery from sites like Mehrgarh painted with designs like bulls, felines, trees, fish, and geometric patterns. Images also show pottery from places like Khuzdar, Pakistan, Susa in Iran, and Sothi in Rajasthan, India dating to the early Harappan period with designs and styles like red slipped ware, bichrome paintings, and monochrome paintings. The pottery provides examples of the artistic traditions and styles of pottery making during the Indus civilization.

1. Potteries
By Dr Ashwani Asthana

2. MEHRGARH BICHROME FIGURAL
VESSEL, Indus Valley, c. 3rd millennium BC.
The pot painted with two large bulls separated
by vegetation.
3.5 x 4.5 inches.

3. MEHRGARH BICHROME
FIGURAL POT, Indus Valley,
c. 3rd millennium BC.
The pot painted with
register of felines and trees
between two bands of
numerous small ibex, a
raised wavy line below.
5.5 x 5.5 inches.

4. MEHRGARH LARGE FISH BICHROME BOWL, Indus Valley, c. 3rd millennium BC.
The bowl painted with three large fish with linear and arrow bands above and below.
4.5 x 7 inches.

5. MEHRGARH BICHROME OIL LAMP, Indus Valley, c. 3rd millennium BC. Of four pinch
square form, the pot painted with geometric designs on the outer rim.
1.5 x 2.5 inches.

6. Mehrgarh Culture, c. 4000 BC. 4 inches.

7. Mehrgarh, 3rd millennium B.C., H: 6.5 cm
Mehrgarh, 3rd millennium B.C., H: 11 c

8. Jar
Khuzdar (Pakistan), 3rd
millennium B.C., pottery,
H: 14 cm

9. Painted beaker Susa A, late 5th-early 4th
millennium BC
(From Susa, south-west Iran)

10. Nausharo:

11. Mehrgarh, 3rd millennium B.C

14. Red Slipped Ware with Bichrome (black & white) paintings, Early Harappan, Sothi,
Rajasthan

15. Red Slipped Ware with
Monochrome (black) paintings,
Early Harappan, Sothi, Rajasthan

16. Baroar

20. Black/Chocolate Slipped Red Ware, Early
Harappan, Sothi, Rajasthan
Grey Ware, Early Harappan, Sothi, Rajasthan