The Lothal Sealings: records from an Indus Civilization town at the eastern end of the maritime trade limits across the Arabian Sea.

The paper provides the first detailed typology and functional study of the approximately one hundred terracotta sealings discovered at the Harappa site of Lothal (Gujarat, India). The study is based on the physical reexamination of the sealings and on new high resolution digital photographs taken by the authors, who analyzed in great detail the traces left by the containers on the back of the sealings. This approach allowed outlining similarities and differences with contemporary sealing systems used in Mesopotamia and the Near East, and discussing the role played by Lothal in the commercial networks across the Arabian Sea.