322 – 185 BCE · Gangetic & pan-subcontinental
Mauryan
The first period with an administrative text that names women as workers, and assigns them wages.
Written
Plates are drawn reconstructions unless a collection is named. Standing flags on the illustrations are declared on the method page.
Written on this period
Longer readings that the plate captions above cannot hold.
Sources
Numbered against the plates above. Where a plate is a reconstruction rather than a photograph, the note says what the drawing was built from.
—Sources for this era are being compiled. Each plate above will carry a numbered footnote to a specific work once they are in.