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Fire workers: techniques of bronze smithy
and lapidary: stoneware bangles
See weapons, implements
etc. made by fire-workers of Sarasvati-Sindhu
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Kotla Nihang (30.57N, 76.32E), 2 kms. SE of Ropar on Shatadru (Sutlej) river; oval fire kilns in a row; fragments of terracotta bangles were picked up from the kilns; Sharma, Y.D., 1982, Pl. 13.1 |
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An exquisite example of bronze smithy is the statue wearing bangles from wrist to shoulder and a necklace, Mohenjodaro. (After Marshall, Pl. XCIV). |
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How were stoneware
bangles made? View of the slag with the coated sub-cylindrical bowl enclosing the stoneware bangles in a pile, in central position, Mohenjodaro. (Massimo Vidale, in:Jansen and Urban, 1987, p. 109) |
      Signs 403-407 are shaped like a pair of bangles |
Balakot, Stoneware
bangle and fragments (Blk-6, Parpola)
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Reconstruction of the stoneware bangles' firing apparatus; stoneware bracelets are piled up in five pairs and enclosed in a coated carinated jar. The jar is given red-slipped, chaff-tempered outer coating. The apparatus is mounted on a network of supporting terracotta bangles. A unicorn seal impression is affixed on the upper capping. (Massimo Vidale, in:Jansen and Urban, 1987, p. 111) |
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Perforated jar (Use in gold purification, parase). Its use will be further explained in the lexicon. (Pots and pans301kb.) |
