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Early Indus Valley tabular disk beads
If you look at the beads Indus beads below, you will see that they all
still have marks of pecking even though they have been after polished on a grinding stone.
Average size: 10 * 3 mm
Period:
Indus Valley Culture - Most probably the
Ravi Phase 3300-2800 BC
Origin: Harappa - Greater India (Now Pakistan)
The site www.harappa.com, picture no.120
shows the same carnelian type of bead to the right.
Here is a photo from an excavation find from Bhirrana
where you can see the same disk beads. (Archaeological Survey of India)
Dholak shaped, bicone carnelian Indus Beads
 
18 * 12 mm (600 dpi)
 
16 * 11 mm
 
12 * 9 mm
 
10 * 9 mm
 
9 * 9 mm
 
15 * 11 * 5,5 mm 15 * 9 * 5 mm
 
16 * 14 mm
18 * 13 mm
16 * 11 mm
Carnelian hexagonal tube beads
27 * 9 mm
42 * 8 mm
10 * 7 mm
Largest piece: 16 * 10 mm - smallest piece: 8 * 6
mm
These rare beads are with their special design and large, well made
holes typical for the Harappan Civilization.
(You can see them displayed in the National Museum in New Delhi.)
Beads made in the following historical periods have often much less
beautiful holes!
Period:
Indus Valley Culture 1500
BC
Origin: Harappa - Greater India (Now Pakistan)
Period: From Indus Valley Culture 3000-1500 BC
Origin: Greater India
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