Science and Art of Calligraphy and Painting

Author(s): S Andhare
Publisher: Indian National Science Academy

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carving or lettering was completed, it was dipped in to a solution of alkaline slip and fired to get a fine lusterous finish. This rendered it a terra-cotta colour.
The diversity of animals and letters incised on the seals is astonishing and the technique and beauty of their execution is impressive and awe inspiring. Frequent appearance of a 'bull and also of grotesque multiheaded or composite animals point out to its probable locale of manufacture. The sealings are small circular and cylindrical objects hollow from inside, having floral or geometrical motifs, when unrolled on wet clay give out the impression on it. These minute and intricate designs are the works of craftsmanship of the Indus man. These seals might be considered as the first art objects of Indian art. In them we find, superbly contained within a format of less than 2" square. features that were to be the hall mark of Indian Art throughout the history.
If the credit of manufacture is to be attributed to contemporary archaeological discoveries of the microliths found at several such sites, cudos to the artisans who produced these wonders of calligraphic marvels of the world.
Fig 15 Stone tools and Microliths
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