Mullen Books

Chanhu-Daro Excavations, 1935-36 [American Oriental Series, Volume 20]

Mackay, Ernest J.H.

New Haven, CT: American Oriental Society, 1943. Hardcover. Blue-green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. xv with 2 color frontispieces; 338 pp + 46 plates, majority in BW (1 color) and some fold-outs. G+. Wear and rubbing to edges of cloth. Spine is lightly shaken but largely still tight. Ex-library with usual marks. Some binding linen exposed between endpapers/pages nearest front and rear of book from shaken spine. Contents are clean. Item #169161

Published for American School of Indic and Iranian Studies and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. American Oriental Series edited by W. Norman Brown. Contents include trenches; the cutting; mound II (upper levels and second Harappa occupation); Mound I; pottery of the Harappa Culture; pottery of the Jhukar culture; later wares, and stone and faience vessels; seals, seal-amulets, and seal impressions; figures and model animals; toys and playthings; copper and bronze objects and utensils; personal ornaments; miscellaneous objects; objects of scientific interest; skull found at Chanhu-Daro; bibliography, catalogue of illustrated objects (plates); and an index.

OCLC: 3092000

Price: $185.00