panel
- Museum number
- 1899,0609.66
- Description
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Part of a stupa drum panel with a caitya arch frieze of worshippers in two compartments.
In each compartment a worshipping Bodhisattva or donor faces the other across a Persepolitan column, dressed with a variation of the uttartya as on BM 1899.0609.27.
- Production date
- 2ndC-3rdC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 6.30 centimetres
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Height: 18.20 centimetres
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Width: 28 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Zwalf 1996:
The damaged caitya arches differ from those on Bm 1899.0609.49 and BM 1899.0609.27 in having, on the left, inverted pot pendants as on BM 1917.0501.7, rather than grapes; no pendant is now visible under the other arch. Within the arches is a tapering frame with a rounded border. The Persepolitan column and cornice are as on BM 1899.0609.49 and BM 1899.0609.27 and at the side a framed panel contains a vertical foliate branch.
The circumference presupposed by this and the following piece is the same as that of BM 1899.0609.49 and BM 1899.0609.27.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- 1.Grey schist, broken and exfoliated.
2.Top and bottom flat and smooth; bottom with 'K-66' painted in white; left side roughly flat and sloping inwards to back; right side irregularly broken.
3.Back with vertical chisel grooves.
4.Curved in section.
- Acquisition date
- 1899
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1899,0609.66