Abstract
Ancient Taxila is famous for the production of stone construction material and stone sculptures.2 There are many stone artefacts reported from Taxila valley during, more than last hundred years.3 Besides the stone architectural elements, sculptures, there is a large collection of utensils and other articles of daily use unearthed from Bhir Mound and Sirkap.4 (Marshall 1951, Vol.II.:476) Most of artefact unearthed from early levels of archaeological sites in Taxila valley comprises pivot-stones, querns, mullers, pestles, mortars and grinding mills. Household vessels of various kinds, lamps, toilet trays and vases, burnishers, palettes, spindle whorls, potter’s konoras and thatwas, amulets and sacred ring stones, moulds, stone for incrustation and inlay work and a few miscellaneous pieces such as knife handles and dies besides finger rings, seals, gems.5 Locally available limestone was not encouraging medium for the production of small articles even kanjur was never used at all for small objects but mostly making the inner core of structure and some stucco heads discovered from Apsidal temple Sirkap. There for the soft stone or semi-precious stone used for production of artefacts either imported in raw shape from their respective provenances, located outside of Taxila valley or received in form of gift and donation
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