ANCIENT ARTEFACT. INDUS VALLEY VESSEL JUG. ca.1300 B.C. 12\" ht. Original Paint

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ANCIENT ARTEFACT. INDUS VALLEY VESSEL JUG. ca.1300 B.C. 12\" ht. Original Paint:
$1136.36

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Ancient Indus Valley Pottery,

Water Vessel,

Spectacular Anthropomorphic Spout,

30 cm height.

22 cm diameter.

2441 grams

Certificate Of Authenticity Supplied.

Geometric painting including double

axe-head design, welldocumented in

Indus Valley\'s ancient artwork/symbols

in black and umber pigment. Banded

sections of black pigment,

both in the lower section and about the

head of the vessel.

Some earth accretions remain, more so

to one side, removeable.

Ex-My collection. Prior to that a

Queensland, Australia collection.

From the late end of the Ancient Indus

Valley civilisation, approximately 1300 B.C.,

it appears to be the same or similar age,

type, paint and materialas the

Thermoluminescence tested vessel also selling.

Indus Valley was only discovered for the

west in 1921 and excavations didn\'t

begin till 1926 and never on the scale of

Ancient Egypt even though

they existed at the same point in time,

only a few thousand kilometres apart.

Indus have been found to have been

the earliest users

of polychrome paints, surpassing the

Mesopotamians who were previously

thought to be the earliest.

The Indus Valley civilisation have also

now been found to be the earliest

practitioners of dentistry, were advanced

in town planning, sewerage and

water at a very early point in civilisation.

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ANCIENT ARTEFACT. INDUS VALLEY VESSEL JUG. ca.1300 B.C. 12\" ht. Original Paint:
$1136.36