Two wide staircases, one from the north and another from the south, were used to enter the Great Bath. The floor of this tank was watertight owing to finely fitted bricks set on edge with gypsum plaster. Brick colonnades were exposed on the northern, eastern and southern edges though the western edge (at the left) had none. Sir John Marshall, one of the earliest Indus archaeologists, thought that the brick colonnades would have been present even on the western edge. Reconstructions done later have replaced these missing columns. |
