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There are different varieties or beads found in the pot :
Black micro-beads cut from cylindrical tubes. 2.5 mm in diameter Dark yellow beads ranging. 2 to 6 mms in diameter. Light-weight white beads. 6mm to 11 mm in diameter. Green, round and rectangular beads of Semi Precious Stone Etched carnelian beads of Semi Precious Stone Long Barrel Cylinder beads of Semi Precious Stone Globular, Spheroidal, and flat wafferlike beads of Semi Precious Stone Red Coral beads Large (52 x 30 x 12) mm cube-shaped dark blue colored Rectangular beads of Semi Precious Stone
The Pot also contained some cut pearls, plenty of red corals, some of them perforated, and about 25 sea shell rings. This could have been a jeweler's pot, ready to be sold or exported.
Long barrel cylinder beads are evidence of the Pre-Sargonic Indus Mesopotamian contact. Such beads have been reported from two sites out side Mesopotamia: Susa and Jalalabad88.
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Dilip K Chakrabarti?Long Barrel cylinder Beads and the issue of Pre Sargonic contact between Harappan Civilisation and Mesopotamia. Chapter 24, Harappan civilization
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