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Spouted Vessels from Nāvḍā Ṭoli (Madhya Bharat) and Iran

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

H. D. Sankalia
H. D. Sankalia*
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Deccan College, Poona, India
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Antiquity , Volume 29 , Issue 114 , June 1955 , pp. 112 - 115
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1955

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References

1. Sankalia, H. D. ’Dancing Human Figures from Nāvḍā Ṭoli (Central India) and Western Asia’, in ANTIQUITY.Google Scholar
2. Aiyappan, A. ‘Rude Stone Monuments of the Peramal Hills’ in Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society, Bangalore, Vol. XXXI (1940–1941), pp. 373–9. What Aiyappan illustrates is not truly a ‘beak’ spout, but a ‘channel’ or ‘trough’ spout, as kindly suggested by Col. D. H. Gordon, to whom I am obliged for going through this article. The Stone Axe Culture of Brahmagiri has also yielded lipped spouts. See Ancient India, No. 4 (1947-8), p. 272.Google Scholar
3. Frankfort, H. ‘Archaeology and Sumerian Problem’, The Oriental Institute University of Chicago, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, No. 4, 1932.Google Scholar
4. For instance Alaca Huyuk, pl. XLII, I, and Fig. 192, 10 ; Chypre, pl. LII, 34; Lapithos and Vounous-Bellapais (Chypre), Figs. 196, 15-16, and 201, 12; Ras Shamra-Ugarit, Fig. 47, H; Tarse (Asie Mineure), Fig. 175, I; Alisar Huyuk (Niveau II), Fig. 193, 7, 27 in Schaeffer, Claude F. A., Stratigraphie Comparée et Chronologie (London, 1948).Google Scholar
5. Ghirshman, R. Fouilles de Sialk, Vol. 11 (Paris, 1939), pl. xvii, 10.Google Scholar
6. Schaeffer, op. cit., Fig. 246, 4. Contenau, G. and Ghirshman, R. ‘Fouilles de TépéGiyan’, pl. XIV, 5. This is reproduced here. Except for the handle, this Giyan vessel is identical in shape with that from Nāvdā Toli (a).Google Scholar
7. Schmidt, Erich F., Excavations at Tépé Hissar, pp. 307-8, and Fig. 126, p. 214 (Philadelphia, 1937).Google Scholar
8. Though there are some definite similarities in designs between the painted pottery from Nāvḍā Ṭoli and sites in Makran, no cut-away spouted vessels are reported by Stein in his Innermost Asia (Oxford, 1928), ‘An Archaeological Tour in Gedrosia, MASI., No. 43 (Calcutta, 1931), and ‘An Archaeological Tour in Waziristan and Northern Baluchistan, MASI., No. 37 (Calcutta, 1929).Google Scholar
9 Frankfort, op. cit., Table III. This table illustrates vessels which are truly beak-spouted, though the spouts are cut. True channel-spouts are shown in our illustration. These are done by my pupil and assistant, Shaikh Z. D. Ansari.Google Scholar
10. It may be here pointed out that Childe, Gordon V. (‘Megaliths’ in Ancient India, No. 4 (1947-8), p. 10), had noted the occurrence of porthole slabs in the Necropolis B at Sialk, and said, ‘Yet Sialk B might be used to link with … the celebrated Indian dolmens … But they are concentrated in the south of the Peninsula in areas not likely to be affected by land-borne impulses from Iran’. Now, in this connection it may be pointed out that Nāvḍā Ṭoli has also yielded a black and red pottery of the S. Indian fabric and types in its bowls and dishes. So there are chances that Nāvḍā Ṭoli may provide a link between the S. Indian megaliths and Iran.Google Scholar