2-979-546 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Relics from the Buried City of Brahmunabad, in Sind - Pottery, Fragments of Mills, etc, 1857. 8th- or 9th-century objects excavated at his own expense by Mr. A. F. Bellasis, of the Bombay Civil Service, in what is now Pakistan. 'Figs 1: vessels in pottery; Figs. 2: glazed pottery or earthenware, or china; Figs. 3: movable covers of water-vessels; Figs. 4: two stone short-legged tables; Fig. 5: a grinding-stone with a roller, for pulverising curry ingredients, grinding paints, &c.; Figs. 6: fragments of a two-stone mill for grinding corn, and which is still in general use for that purpose throughout India; Fig. 7: one of several crucibles containing lumps of iron ores; Figs. 8: balls of agate and cornelian; which, together with rough and cut cornelians, are evidently from the house of a lapidary; Fig. 9: a bull made of pottery. Many of these were found; also horses and camels, &c., used as toys for children'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.