Ca. 3000-2000 BC.A shallow terracotta bowl in a deep amber colour standing on a ring foot. The interior is decorated with concentric panels featuring geometric motifs. The Indus civilization, also called the Harappan civilization, is the earliest known urban culture of the Indian subcontinent and was an important Bronze Age culture that arose around ca. 3300 BC and lasted until ca. 1300 BC. It extended from modern-day northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India. The nuclear dates of the civilization appear to be about 2500-1700 BC, though the southern sites may have lasted later into the 2nd millennium BC. Its heyday, to which this kind of ceramic vessel belongs, was in the 3rd millennium BC. Large numbers of ceramic vessels decorated with black slip have been found among the sophisticated urban settlements of South Asia's protohistoric Indus Valley civilization. To find out more about the Indus civilisation and its material culture, see Possehl, Gregory L., 2002. The Indus Civilization: a Contemporary Perspective. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Pres.Size: L:100mm / W:280mm ; 1.11kgProvenance: From the private collection of a Central London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/European art market before 2000.