Puzzle Description:

This is Indus art, rather than a sign, that decorated a jar found in the same excavations where the Indus seals were discovered.

#1: Teresa K (fasstar) on Mar 3, 2010

Lothal is one of the most important archaeological sites in India. The site was discovered in 1957; The ruins of the settlement belonged to the Harappan Era, dating back to the 2nd millennium BC.

The Harappan culture made its last stand in Gujarat province in southwestern India. Lothal developed as the most important port and a center of the bead industry until 1900 BC, when a great flood apparently resulted in 300 years of decline. However, the Indus civilisation survived here in the 1600s and 1500s BC, after which it disappeared from the northern provinces.

The industry of special interest in Lothal was pottery, which included beautiful jars painted with stags, bulls, cows, horses, sitting birds and more, terra-cotta toys and figurines. Two styles of pottery have been discovered in Lothal - the stud-handled convex bowl and the small flaring rimmed jar. While painting utensils, the Harappans started with horizontal and verticle patterns, on which they added geometric and non- geometric patterns. Peacocks and floral designs in black-on-red or brown-on-buff surfaces were popular motifs.

Here is a photo of the jar, which is 4,000 years old:
http://www.varalaaru.com/images/Apr06/Iconography05.jpg

I thought it was a turkey, LOL.

Good job.

Thanks, Adam. Back then, there was a wild jungle fowl in India that they domesticated. It kind of looks like a turkey, doesn't it?

It made me think of pineapple chicken.

uff... tough one...
nice picture, in the jar they look more like ducks, don't they?

nice design and solve. :)
Like the history lesson.

Fun, challenging solve!

What a great puzzle and what a great history lesson!

Very interesting. A much tougher puzzler than it looks at first. Quite a fun solve. No guessing required.

Interesting solve! Thanks.

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