Lothal
A small port town near the Gulf of Khambhat with a great brick basin, a bead factory and an ivory scale.
Lothal was a small town of about five hectares near the head of the Gulf of Khambhat. Its most famous feature is a long brick basin on its eastern side, interpreted by its excavator S. R. Rao as a tidal dockyard for ships, and by others as a reservoir.
It had a bead-making factory, a warehouse where sealings of goods were found, and a Persian Gulf seal that shows its trade by sea. An ivory scale from Lothal is divided into units of less than two millimetres.
A museum on the site displays its finds.
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