PAKISTAN INDUS clay figurine circa 1800-1000 BC
$20.00
PAKISTAN, Balochistan, INDUS, figurine, circa 1800-1000 BC, the head and forelegs of a humped bull, clay, 57x52x30mm, horns and most of the front legs are missing too, crude, VG
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Description
Many small clay figures have come out of southern Pakistan. They are generally assigned to the 2000-500 BC time frame. Many of them are obviously votive. Some of them might have been toys.
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.
Over the decades I’ve been selling collectibles my market has been about 97% coins, 2% paper money, 1% everything else.
