PAKISTAN Baktrian Indus figurine circa 1800-1000 BC
$40.00
PAKISTAN, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, Rahot Kot, Swat, BAKTRIAN/INDUS, figurine, circa 1800-1000 BC, a humanoid head and torso but the features of the face are somewhat pig-like, has human arms, one covering its mouth, the other placed on its chest, clay, 42x26x23mm, there used to be legs, F
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Description
They made a lot of little clay statues for a couple of thousand years. Many of them were probably votive or “good luck,” some were probably toys, many are kind of enigmatic regarding what they might have been used for.
Humans started building cities, meaning a group of more than one family living in a planned and administered community, in the late neolithic period, about 10,000 years ago, roughly. The earliest known cities of South Asia (India-Pakistan-etc.) were Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, now in Pakistan. We call the culture that built those cities “Indus.” There was no writing, but there was fine pottery, polished and carved stone, and metal work. Lots of it. They were prosperous for many centuries. They didn’t have horses, but they had cattle, and some of them did yoga.
Northwest Frontier Province was renamed Khyber Pakhtunwa in 2010.
Over the decades I’ve been selling collectibles my market has been about 97% coins, 2% paper money, 1% everything else.
