Room 12 | India 2500 BC-AD 600 gallery
Explore the early development of Indian art, from the artefacts of the Indus Valley to the Hindu and Buddhist sculpture of north India and Gandhara.
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Square seal
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Description
Indus seals were commonly used to mark bundles of trade goods. This well-known type shows a one-horned bovine animal before a ritual offering stand, with characters in the undeciphered Indus script.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Pakistan › Punjab province › Harappa (place of creation)
- Date
- c. 2000 BC
- Material and technique
- steatite, glazed
- Dimensions
- 2.3 x 2.3 x 0.6 cm (height x width x depth)
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tool/implement › matrix › seal
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by the Reverend C. King, 1956.
- Accession no.
- EA2009.6
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Further reading
Buchanan, Briggs, Catalogue of Ancient Near Eastern Seals in the Ashmolean Museum, ii: The Prehistoric Stamp Seals, P. R. S. Moorey, ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), no. 234 on p. 33, pl. XV
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 May 2006-23 December 2008, Treasures: Antiquities, Eastern Art, Coins, and Casts: Exhibition Guide, Rune Frederiksen, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2006), no. 83 on p. 32, illus. p. 32
Ahuja, Naman, ‘Early Indian Art at the Ashmolean Museum - Catalogue in progress’, 2016, no. 11.2
Location
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Ground floor | Room 12 | India to 600
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Ground floor | Room 12 | India to 600
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