Place · ivory & bead workshop town · India
Bhokardan
A Satavahana-period town in the Jalna district of Maharashtra excavated for its ivory carving, bead making and shell working — one of the production centres behind the objects that travelled west from the Konkan ports.
- Function
- Trade & production
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 20.267, 75.767
Worth knowing
The Pompeii yakshi figure matches the ivory work from here and from Ter closely enough that the Deccan workshops are the usual attribution. The road from these towns crossed the Ghats at the passes the Karle, Bhaja and Nasik caves were cut beside.
Connections (1)
- Trade routePompeii
The ivory yakshi from Pompeii is a Deccan carving, and Bhokardan is one of the Satavahana towns where ivory of exactly that kind was worked. The object connects an inland Maharashtra workshop to a house buried in 79 CE, by way of a Konkan port and an Egyptian one, with no text mentioning any step of the journey.
On these journeys
Sources
Wikipedia, “Bhokardan”. Archaeological Survey of India and State Archaeology monument records, and the standard regional literature.
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