seal
- Museum number
- 1880.3628
- Description
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Circular copper alloy seal with a large rectangular lug, pierced with a large hole for suspension. On the slightly convex face, a schematic representation of the Buddha (?), seated in padmāsana; to the right a vase with an elongated neck, to the left a flower bud on a long stem.
- Production date
- 2ndC-4thC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 12 millimetres (maximum)
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Length: 8 millimetres (lug)
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Thickness: 4 millimetres (lug)
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Thickness: 4 millimetres
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Width: 7 millimetres (lug)
- Curator's comments
- Callieri (in Collon 1997a, pp.172-3) tentatively dates the seal to the Kushan period (1st-3rd century).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- A piece missing from the lower edge; with incrustations.
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Acquisition notes
- Collected from the site of Begram, 1834-8 (MSS Eur. E161/VII, ff.31-3).
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1880.3628
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: IM.Metal.162 (British Museum no.: India Museum collection)
