panel
- Museum number
- 1965,0801.3
- Description
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Stupa drum panel with a caitya arch frieze of a turban and worshippers in five compartments. The second compartment from the right shows, on a draped pedestal with turned legs, a crested turban, presumably the Bodhisattva's enshrined by the gods after the Departure. The turban has a crest rising out of a thick knot, bands radiating from a central bead and vertical loops at the sides. In the two flanking compartments a plump amorino strides towards it with one hand raised and the other at the hip. Similar amorini face each other in the two compartments to the left. The pointed arches are moulded and with sawtooth enrichment, a hint only of volutes and crude lotus-bud and grape pendants. The damaged, framed Persepolitan divider columns are under bracket capitals and lack addorsed lions and plinths.
- Production date
- 2ndC-4thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 5.70 centimetres
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Height: 9.50 centimetres
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Width: 30.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Zwalf 1996:
The prominent framing elements above and below are as on BM 1892.0801.14 but lack the sawtooth motif.
For the turban cult see BM 1902.1002.26.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- 1.Grey schist, broken, worn and with soil incrustation.
2.Top and bottom flat; sides flat and sloping inwards to back.
3.On top a cramp mortise to each side with mason's mark beside each and another mortise open to back on left.
4.Curved in section.
- Acquisition date
- 1965
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1965,0801.3