figure
- Museum number
- 1946,0722.3
- Description
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Tutelary couple turned towards each other and sharing a seat. The god wears a sleeveless knee-length tunic with a beaded belt and a cloak like a 'chlamys' with a densely grooved definition of folds across the chest lying doubled over the left shoulder from a circular clasp in the middle. The turn-over flaps may suggest a lining on the boots. The long cascading hair is curled under a damaged chignon, the damaged head is round to oval and the eyes are ringed with narrow lids. The broken right arm may have been raised above the elbow to hold the spear surviving as the damaged thin projection up the seat leg; the left arm rests on his companion's right shoulder with the long-fingered hand below a bracelet hanging down; the right leg is raised to rest diagonally below the knee.
The now headless goddess is probably holding a cornucopia.
On the throne back the surviving halo has a narrow border defined by a groove inside the edge; the seat has a cushion, turned legs and drapery in between. On the ground two globular pots with incurving sides and lying horizontally spill massed round coins to each side.
- Production date
- 2ndC-3rdC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 6.80 centimetres
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Height: 21 centimetres
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Width: 8.20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Zwalf 1996:
Like that of 1933.1110.45, this pair is of the Pharro-Ardokhsho type.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- 1.Grey schist, broken, exfoliated and with soil incrustation.
2.Bottom flat, pitted and with vestige of rectangular tenon; both sides rebated; back flat and forming smooth flat shelf at shoulder level with, in middle, a cramp mortise for attachment into wall behind.
3.Above shelf, back wholly smooth.
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Acquisition notes
- Bengal Public Works Department (1897-1932).
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1946,0722.3
