Bird on Wheel

The toy is shaped as a pigeon. The perforation through its belly is intended for inserting the axle to which the wheels are attached. This suggests that some of the terracotta figurines were intended as toys.

The pigeon may have been a bird of the mother goddess during this period, as it was in contemporary Crete. This hypothesis is strengthened by an impression on a seal from Mohenjo-daro showing a bird perched in a tree near a mother goddess; a bull is shown before the goddess.