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ItemOrigin and Development of the Indus Script: Insights from Harappa and other sites(National Fund for Mohenjodaro, Culture, Tournism, Antiquities and Archives Department, Government of Sindh, 2020)
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ItemSeven Stranded Necklace( 2014)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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ItemLongest Indus script( 2019)An Indus Valley copper plate inscribed with 34 characters, the longest known single Indus script inscription.
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ItemUnicorn Seal( 2010)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.
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ItemPashupati seal( 2010)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.