ABD-2023-2024

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    Dancing Girl
    ( 2015) Gary Todd
    Dancing Girl is a prehistoric bronze sculpture made in lost-wax casting about c. 2300–1750 BC in the Indus Valley civilisation city of Mohenjo-daro (in modern-day Pakistan),which was one of the earliest cities. The statue is 10.5 centimetres (4.1 in) tall, and depicts a nude young woman or girl with stylized ornaments, standing in a confident, naturalistic pose. Dancing Girl is highly regarded as a work of art. It is now in the National Museum, New Delhi, having been allocated to Republic of India at the Partition of British India in 1947.
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    Longest Indus script
    ( 2019) Vasant Shinde ; Rick J Willis
    An Indus Valley copper plate inscribed with 34 characters, the longest known single Indus script inscription.
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    Pashupati seal
    ( 2010) Aavindraa
    The Pashupati seal (also Mahayogi seal, Proto-Śiva seal) is a steatite seal which was uncovered in Mohenjo-daro, now in modern day Pakistan, a major urban site of the Indus Valley civilisation (IVC). It has one of the more complicated designs in the thousands of seals found from the Indus Valley civilization, and is unusual in having a human figure as the main and largest element; in most seals this is an animal The Pashupati seal is in the National Museum, New Delhi, having been allocated to the Republic of India at Partition in 1947,with the other Mohenjo-daro finds.
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    Priest-King
    ( 2006) Mamoon Mengal
    The Priest-King, in Pakistan often King-Priest, is a small male figure sculpted in steatite found during the excavation of the ruined Bronze Age city of Mohenjo-daro in Sindh, Pakistan, in 1925–26. It is dated to around 2000–1900 BCE, in Mohenjo-daro's Late Period, and is "the most famous stone sculpture" of the Indus Valley civilization ("IVC"). It is on display in the National Museum, Karachi, Pakistan.
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    Seven Stranded Necklace
    ( 2014) Stephanie V.
    Among the tragedies of partition was the literal breaking apart of one of the finest necklaces from Mohenjo-daro, with half going to India and half to Pakistan. The piece on the left is from Pakistan's share, 6 of 10 of a light-green jade beads, 3 of 4 of the seven pendants of agate-jasper. There is not even a color photograph of the complete necklace. Now an effort by archaeologists is hoping to have the two pieces put back together and exhibited by rotation in India and Pakistan.
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    Unicorn Seal
    ( 2010) Marshall
    Large square unicorn seal with perforated boss on the back. The unicorn is the most common motif on Indus seals and appears to represent a mythical animal that Greek and Roman sources trace back to the Indian subcontinent. A relatively long inscription of eight symbols runs along the top of the seal. The elongated body and slender arching neck is typical of unicorn figurines, as are the tail with bushy end and the bovine hooves.