figure
- Museum number
- 1880.187
- Title
- Object: The Buddha
- Description
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Head from a Buddha image. The head is round to oval and the hair undulates densely from a peak. The face has a narrow curved forehead, a domed ūrṇā and sharp edges for eyebrows curving towards the ears above rounded planes sloping down to the narrow, long and slanting eyes with prominent lids with sharp edges. The broken nose had full nostrils and the thin mouth has a shaped and narrow upper lip. The full, rounded chin is prominent and seems pointed. The long and well-formed ears are close to the head with remains of long grooved lobes. Behind the uṣṇīṣa and against its base is a substantial, probably ancient, hole about 1.5 cm deep.
- Production date
- 2ndC-3rdC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 14 centimetres
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Height: 22.60 centimetres
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Width: 14.20 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- 1.Light grey schist, broken and with soil incrustation.
2.Nose, part of hairline, uṣṇīṣa, ears and right cheek damaged; unevenly broken under neck; back roughly flat, presumably sliced from the halo, incised with 'J' upside down and with '11983' in white paint.
- Acquisition notes
- Given in 1876 by Mrs Mary Eustace Smith to the former India Museum. For the donor see the India Museum Slip Book, nos 11751 —12000, in the offices of the present Indian and South-east Asian Section of the Victoria and Albert Museum; the old inscribed British Museum stand also mentions the India Museum.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1880.187