capital
- Museum number
- 1902,1002.54
- Description
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Thin quadrant with acanthus enrichment. One complete leaf has a damaged and drooping central lobe with the points on the lobes on each side joining, or close to, the points of an adjacent leaf.
- Production date
- 2ndC-3rdC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 18.50 centimetres
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Height: 4.50 centimetres
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Width: 28.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Zwalf 1996:
If not part of a capital, perhaps from a stupa cornice.
For similar pieces see Mizuno and Higuchi, 1978: pl. 128 and especially no. 2.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- 1.Grey schist, broken and chipped.
2.Top flat with some chisel grooves and a cramp mortise to each side; on left between mortise and curving outer edge a mason's mark.
3.Bottom flat and curved in front.
4.Left side broken; right side flat and original.
5.Back irregularly broken.
- Acquisition date
- 1902
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1902,1002.54
