Nani Rayan

SR No.: 001481
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Pulin Vasa
Publisher: Kalikal Sarvagya Shri Hemchandracharya Navam Janmashatabdi Smruti Sanskar Shikshannidhi Ahmedabad
Total Pages: 66
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Art, & Culture
File Size: 9 MB

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respectively, 40cm and 27cm thick. At kappar the wall is about 6 ft below the ground level while in trenches the walls were 4 ft below the ground level. This difference is possibly due to the fact that the Kappar region is at a higher level. Toys Or Animal figurine :
More then a dozen Animal figurines are found. A bull with a large hump, 65 x 55 x 27mm. A bull with small hump (fragment) 35 x 34 x 27 mm. An Elephant. 40 x 39 x 20 mm. An unidentified animal probably a lion...46 x 46 x 25 mm. A large (90mm.) conical fragment with two depressions indicating eyes, possibly a bird's head. Monkey, a fragment. 57 x 40 x 30mm. 27 x 24 x 15 mm. An unidentified animal...30 x 25 x 14 mm. An Antelope Head a fragment...50 x 30 x 20 mm. A Rat...53 x 30 x 20 mm. A small bird head...35 x 34 x 24 mm. An unidentified animal. A fragment... 42 x 42 x 16 mm.
4 fragments of body of some animal, possibly horse. Metal Objects: Metal Prototype of Molded Ware:
This small (42 mm in ht and 51 mm in diameter at the belly) bronze pot has exquisite design of lotus petals on both upper and lower segment separated by a row of round dots, these dots are sandwiched in two lines. There are two round almost circular handles at the rim. Such metal prototype is believed to have come to India in the third century BC from Rome.100 I have seen the identically designed marble exhibit of 4th century BC known as Marble Funeray Loatrophoros from Greece
at The Metropolitan Museum at New York. A bronze structure with an elephant :
It is a small (51mm long and 5mm thick) stick like object of bronze. It has a Statue of an African Elephant at the top. The shaft has 4 horizontal groves at a distance of 5 mms each. Underneath the last grove the shaft is 15 mm in length. Thus the shaft is divided in 4 parts three parts of 5mm and one of 15mm. The other side of the shaft has a semicircular rim towards the lower end. This strange object can either be a measure or can be a key of some lock.
100 Vimla Bagely Introduction Rome and India Anciant sea trade
The Antiquities