figure
- Museum number
- 1899,0609.64
- Description
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Fragment of the right-hand end of a stupa drum panel showing nāgas. From right to left: a nāga with a crested turban, a collar and earrings, and with his serpent attribute rearing out of his back, takes flowers with his right hand from a loop of his uttarīya suspended across the body by the other hand at the shoulder. Beside him are vestiges of a nāgī wearing an anklet and a serpent with transverse grooves on the underside rising behind her head; on the left is a vestige of a similar serpent, doubtless over another head.
- Production date
- 2ndC-3rdC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 5 centimetres
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Height: 14.60 centimetres
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Width: 14.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Zwalf 1996:
The framing elements are as on BM 1899.0609.11.
For complete panels with worshipping and flanking nāgas see BM 1899.0609.13, BM 1899.0609.11 and BM 1899.0609.17 and 57.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- 1.Grey schist, broken, exfoliated and rejoined diagonally from two pieces.
2.Top partly flat and painted in white with 'K-64'; right side rough and sloping inwards to back; bottom flat and painted in white with 'K-28'; other edges irregularly broken.
3.Back roughly flat.
4.Front curved in section.
- Acquisition date
- 1899
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1899,0609.64
