panel
- Museum number
- 1880.212
- Description
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Stupa drum panel with four inhabited caitya arches above a parapet. Each arch contains a half-length figure turning to face another to form two pairs. All save one are female and have one hand raised, the other resting on the parapet. Two females wear a collar, one a necklace, two have a chignon hairstyle and two show bracelets; the male wears a collar. The moulded and voluted arches are almost semi-circular and rest on summary Corinthian capitals above short tapering shafts; below these is a chequerboard register in three rows of alternating blocks and recesses. In the spandrels are parrots facing each other across one arch; a third parrot is turned towards a bird with extended wing. Over the vertically grooved brackets of somewhat angular cyma reversa type is a sawtooth cornice.
- Production date
- 2ndC-3rdC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 5 centimetres
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Height: 9.80 centimetres
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Width: 23 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Zwalf 1996:
For an instance of this motif combined with narrative scenes see BM 1899.0715.11.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- 1.Grey schist, worn and with soil incrustation.
2.Top and bottom flat and smooth; top with cramp mortise open at back and leading to each side with mason's marks beside each; sides flat and sloping inwards to back.
3.Back with some vertical chisel grooves and painted '11988'.
4.Curved in section.
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Acquisition notes
- Given in 1876 by Mrs Mary Eustace Smith to the former India Museum, no. 11088. 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 refers to the India Museum.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1880.212
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 11988 (India Museum)