Indus Unicorn Vs Hittle Basalt Relief

The unicorn in the Indus valley seal was an unknown creature. Today I found similar unknown creature in the Hittite excavations.

Late Hittite (Aramaean) Basalt relief sculpture of a Bull from 9th Cent B.C, excavated from the west side of the citadel gate of Sam'al (Hittite: Yadiya) located at Zincirli Höyük in the Anti-Taurus Mountains of modern Turkey's Gaziantep Province. Istanbul Archaeological Museum Inv. No 7709.. Photography by © Paul E Williams 2016.
More search on these two creatures are needed to find the exact species in those seals.

Tamil ⇋ Indus ⇋ Egyptian Connection - 5 - Bronze Mirror

Is Keeladi, Vaigai Valley Civilisation dates back to Sumerian civilisation dating back to 4500-1900BC instead of 600BC?

In my introduction blog, I have already explained the purpose of finding the similarities between Tamil and Sumerian. 

This blog will introduce the bronze mirror excavated in Adichanallur.  This was reported by Catalogue of the Prehistoric Antiquities publised in 1915 as follows.

Item number : 15. Disc with concentric circles aabove (D-7”). Probably used for frying cakes.

Item number : 23. Circular flat place with incised concentric circles on the upper surface; projecting triangular handle (D-6”). Intended for frying cakes.

With the image we can make out that without knowing that it can be a mirror, Mr. Alexander Rea has deciphered it as the frying cakes (as Tamils have the food named Dosa which is cooked using such frying pans).  The design on the center and the concentric circles around proves that it is a bronze mirror.

Bronze mirrors have been recovered from sites like Rakhigarhi, Lothal, Dholavira and Mohenjodaro (locations of Indus Valley Civilisation) as well. One illustrated here have more or less similar design.

The Egyptian bronze mirror looks as follows.  The mirror of Adichanallur might have missed the handle as shown.

Brooklyn museum explains the mirror as follows.

The Egyptians first used mirrors in the Old Kingdom (Third through Sixth Dynasties; circa 2675–2170 B.C.E.) if not earlier. The design—elliptical disks supported by handles shaped like papyrus plants—symbolized the moment when the creator-god emerged from the primordial swamp in the form of the sun. The Egyptians believed that all life began in this so-called First Moment. When they picked up their mirrors each morning they were thus reminded of creation.

The shape of mirrors changed over time. In the Eighteenth Dynasty, the traditional oval disk was replaced by a circular form. Handles appeared in a wide variety of shapes, including images of animals, adolescent girls, and papyrus flowers.

How about the similarity of all these mirrors?

The comparison between these findings will surely take the civilisation on the River Vaigai back to the same time as Egyptian 2675–2170 BC and Mohenja-daro Indus 2700 to 18/1700BC Civilisations instead of 600BC.

References

Alexander Rea: Catalogue of the Prehistoric Antiquities,1915, Item 15,23, Plate II

Vibha Tripathi. Metals and Metallurgy in the Harappan Civilization, Indian Journal of History of Science, 53.3 (2018) 279-295

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3682

Tamil ⇋ Sumerian Connection - 4 - Terminal with animal figure

Is Adichanallur, Vaigai Valley Civilisation dates back to Sumerian civilisation dating back to 4500-1900BC instead of 600BC?

In my introduction blog, I have already explained the purpose of finding the similarities between Tamil and Sumerian. 

This blog will show the similarity between Tamil and Sumerian in the bronze products obtained in the excavations of Adichanallur and Ur respectively.

Adichanallur excavations of 1899 enabled to find lot of artefacts that includes Teminal with animal figures.  It is mentioned as item number 92 in the Catalogue of the Prehistoric Antiquities,publised in 1915. 

Terminal with traces of twelve stems all around, each ending in a pear-shaped bud. Only nine of the stems remain complete. Over the central bar is a buffalo with long curved horns. Plate II Fig 23.

 

Equivalent in Sumerian Civilisation is the Ram in the Thicket. The ram's head and legs are layered in gold leaf which had been hammered against the wood. The tree with eight stems is covered in gold leaf with gold flowers as shown in the image below.

Though the two items are made in different metals, the basic structure is similar showing the similarity between the two civilisations.

Isn't it similar?

The comparison between these findings will surely take the civilisation on the River Vaigai back to the same time as Sumerian 4500-1900BC instead of 600BC.

References

Alexander Rea: Catalogue of the Prehistoric Antiquities,1915, Item 15,23, Plate II

https://web.archive.org/web/20080708141106/http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/tombs/explore/ram.html

Tamil ⇋ Sumerian Connection - 3 - Brick Buildings

Is Keeladi, Vaigai Valley Civilisation dates back to Sumerian civilisation dating back to 4500-1900BC instead of 600BC?

In my introduction blog, I have already explained the purpose of finding the similarities between Tamil and Sumerian.

A well planned city existed in various civilisations.  The same existed in the Vaigai Valley Civilisations as well.

The excavations of shows a well planned houses with water management system. The houses were built with bricks.

As mentioned in the previous blog, there were many artefacts hidden under the earth of the Vaigai civilisation. Some of  the artefact samples were sent for carbon dating.  It was found to be dated back to 600BC.

City named Ur was once prominent city of the Sumerian Civilisation. There were many houses built with bricks similar to one excavated in Keeladi. 

Isn't it similar?

The comparison between these findings will surely take the civilisation on the River Vaigai back to the same time as Sumerian 4500-1900BC instead of 600BC.