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Statue, Uruk (W.16017), c. 3000
B.C.; bull with trefoil inlays; shell mass with inlays of lapis lazuli; 5.3 cm. long;
Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin; Parpola, 1994, p. 213. |
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Steatite statue fragment;
Mohenjodaro (Sd 767); trefoil-decorated bull; traces of red pigment remain inside the
trefoils. After Ardeleanu-Jansen 1989: 196, fig. 1; Parpola, 1994, p. 213. |
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Trefoils painted on steatite
beads, Harappa (After Vats, Pl. CXXXIII, Fig.2) |
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Tre-foil inlay decorated base
(for linga icon?); smoothed, polished pedestal of dark red stone; National Museum of
Pakistan, Karachi; After Mackay 1938: I, 411; II, pl. 107:35; Parpola, 1994, p. 218. |
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Two decorated bases and a
lingam, Mohenjodaro. |
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Lingam, grey sandstone
in situ, Harappa, Trench Ai, Mound F, Pl. X (c) (After Vats). "In an earthenware
jar, No. 12414, recovered from Mound F, Trench IV, Square I... in this jar, six lingams
were found along with some tiny pieces of shell, a unicorn seal, an oblong grey sandstone
block with polished surface, five stone pestles, a stone palette, and a block of
chalcedony..." (Vats, EH, p. 370) |
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Statue (DK 1909), Mohenjodaro;
four views; white steatite, with remnants of red paint inside the trefoils of the robe;
height 17 cm.; National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi; After Marshall 1931a:pl.98; Parpola,
1994, p. 212. |