Heritage record
Mughal Ghundai
BalochistanSettlementProtected
The site is located 10 km towards north of Loralai town in northern Baluchistan. It measures 100 x 60 m in size. It was subjected to illegal diggings by the local people. It was first explored by Stein in 1927 and potshards and finds were retrieved. Fairservis visited the mound in 1953 and discovered structures and collected numerous pottery fragments and other finds including animal and human figurines, particular hooded Zhobe mother goddesses.
Photographs: Department of Archaeology & Museums national inventory record, displayed from the official source (doam.gov.pk). Not PWHI photography.
- Record ID
- 8919
- Province / territory
- Balochistan
- District
- Loralai
- Typology
- Archaeological Site
- Subtype
- Settlement
- Period
- Proto Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 31.43333, 69.25000 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Posshel, G.L.. (1999). The Indus Age - The Beginnings. University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, United States.
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