panel
- Museum number
- 1940,0713.5
- Description
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Part of a stupa drum panel with an incomplete scene and another, complete, showing the Buddha and worshippers. In the complete scene the haloed Buddha in abhaya, hand tilted back, the left in the lap, is seated under leafy branches and on a moulded seat. The flanking figures turned towards him with hands joined wear uttarīya, girdled paridhāna, the usual ornaments and crested turbans. A similar standing worshipper is in the vestigial scene. The carving is now indistinct.
Two framed columns with Corinthian capitals have the usual base mouldings. A high sawtooth cornice runs above and a plain fillet frames the panel below.
- Production date
- 2ndC-3rdC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 6.70 centimetres
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Height: 9.50 centimetres
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Width: 21.60 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- 1.Grey schist, broken and worn.
2.Top flat and smooth with large opening at back downwards to meet a pinhole with remains of modern drilling from front; left side flat, sloping inwards to back; right side irregularly broken. 3.Bottom flat, almost smooth, with two round holes containing modern wooden plugs.
4.Back roughly convex.
5.Front curved in section.
- Acquisition date
- 1940
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1940,0713.5