panel
- Museum number
- 1889,1016.2
- Description
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String panel of a stair with an ichthyocentaur. The figure holds his beard with his right hand, his left hand s damaged along with the edge of the panel and his legs are planted forward. The long head is sharply cut with long narrow grooves defining the hair which forms, over the centre of the forehead, a forked or horned shape seen on classical marine beings. The large eyes are open and have pupils indicated, the cheekbones are high and veins appear to show on the neck and perhaps on the forehead. The fingers on the beard are long and flat, the torso is rounded but not very modelled and a groove runs along the underside of the forearm. The wing above the leg has undulating ridges on its smooth surface spreading from a short beaded edge with the body, on the tail a crest of triangular scales projects along two twists, and incised circles continue to the pointed hairy brush at the end. The panel has a frame of plain fillets.
- Production date
- 2ndC-3rdC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 7 centimetres
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Height: 19.40 centimetres
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Length: 32.30 centimetres (of ranking top)
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Width: 28.60 centimetres (at bottom)
- Curator's comments
- Zwalf 1996:
This piece is explained by Marshall as belonging 'under a raking cornice at the side of the steps leading up to a small stupa-base'; for further comments on its use see Errington and Cribb, 1992: 125. Compare with BM 1889.1016.1.
- Location
- On display (G33/dc50b/s2)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
Exhibition: "Alexander the Great: East-West Cultural Contacts from Greece to Japan", Tokyo National Museum, 5 Aug-5 Oct 2003; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, 18 Oct-21 Dec 2003
- Condition
- 1.Light grey schist, broken and chipped.
2.Raking top flat and pitted with large rectangular tenon; vertical side flat with chisel marks; bottom flat and smooth with large rectangular tenon.
3.Damaged or cut into at top and bottom of vertical side.
4.Back with diagonal chisel grooves.
- Acquisition date
- 1889
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased from Mr E. C. Bensley.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1889,1016.2
