Earthen pots
- British colonial
An 1825 British survey says ships from the Maldive Islands loaded up on rice and earthen clay pots every time they visited the Odisha coast. They picked up their cargo at the ports of Balasore and Dhamra.
Maldive ships filled their holds with Odisha rice and clay pots before sailing home.
An 1825 British survey says ships from the Maldive Islands filled up on rice and clay pots. They did this every time they visited Balasore and Dhamra, on the Odisha coast. [Stirling, 1825, p. 194]
For scholars
Only one source documents this, so the tier stops at Probable. Stirling does not describe the pots. He gives no size, shape or use. He does not say where in Odisha they were made. [Stirling, 1825, p. 194]
Facts
- Category
- Ceramic
- Direction
- Exported from Kalinga
Scholar notes
Only one source documents this, so the tier stops at Probable. Stirling does not describe the pots (size, shape or use) or say where in Odisha they were made.
- Andrew Stirling. *An Account, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of Orissa Proper or Cuttack*. in Asiatic Researches 15. 1825. public domain , p. 194 (Maldive vessels 'resort annually to Balasore and Dhamra, to take on board cargoes of rice and earthen pots'.)