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- Museum number
- 1899,0609.61
- Description
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Plinth for a stupa drum. From top to bottom are: stepped fillets; a torus enriched with pointed-leaf pattern; and a plinth with, between framing fillets, bands forming a diaper of framed rosettes in a pattern of one complete six-petalled flower to two halves.
- Production date
- 2ndC-3rdC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 10 centimetres
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Height: 10.50 centimetres
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Width: 37.50 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- 1.Grey schist, broken and chipped.
2.Top flat and smooth with cramp mortise to right side; bottom flat and mainly smooth painted with 'K-61'; left side irregularly broken; right side flat and rough.
3.Back with vertical chisel grooves.
4.Curved in section.
- Acquisition date
- 1899
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1899,0609.61