figure
- Museum number
- 1880.113
- Description
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Head from a Buddha image. The round to oval head is like 1880.115 but the hairline is bevelled and the hair is only summarily shown towards the back. Distinct high edges for eyebrows arch over long, rounded, asymmetrical eyes. The large, long mouth is set in a full, plump face.
- Production date
- 5thC-6thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 5.80 centimetres
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Height: 8.20 centimetres
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Width: 6.40 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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For documentation and identification of the group of eight heads from the south side of the mound on which the modern Hadda village was built, see 1880.107. For the other heads from the same site, see 1880.114-1880.116, 1880.118, 1880.119, 1880.121. For comments by Zwalf (1996), see 1880.107.
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'IM' in pencil on the object identifies it as being from the India Museum.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Lab. no.33492Z: examined with a binocular microscope and analysed by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) using Debye-Scherrer cameras, a technique which only requires very small samples (Zwalf 1996, pp. 363–64). Analysis of the surface material of six heads (1880.107, 109, 110, 111, 113, 114) gave a similar result to analysis of the core, showing a gypsum composition throughout. \n 1. Gypsum-stucco, broken and cracked. \n 2. Back made up with modern plaster; ears damaged. \n 3. Surface mainly hard and smooth.
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1880.113
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: IM (i.e. 'India Museum' pencilled on object)