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Winged figure

A figured bracket-spacer depicting a winged male figure. Tool marks cut the surface in various directions on the convex back. The figure is sitting, the right leg is bent. His right hand is raised and open while his left rests on the raised knee, elbow pointing up. The head is …
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Last Existence: Birth Cycle; donors

Part of frieze relief consisting of two superimposed registers, the upper one depicting a row of figures, while the lower one represents two episodes of the Last Existence of the Buddha. The dividing band is carved with a row of lozenges between plain fillets. The scenes on the lower register …
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Last Existence: Great Departure; donors

Part of a frieze relief consisting of two superimposed registers, the lower one representing two scenes of the Last Existence of the Buddha - the left scene is not preserved -, the upper one a row of figures in arches. The registers are separated by a row of lozenges between a plain …
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Maitreya head

Head of Maitreya. He has a moustache, half closed eyes, and hair with a topknot. He wears large earrings. There are traces of a necklace on the right side of the neck and of a nimbus around the head, possibly with a decorated band.
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Buddha

Dividing element in the shape of an encased pilaster of the Gandharan-Corinthian type with a standing buddha in front of the shaft. A square tenon is carved on the bottom face. The buddha’s right hand is in abhayamudrā, while the left holds an edge of the overrobe.
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Male donor

Fragment of a relief showing a male donor standing under a city door. He is separated from another figure by a column of Gandharan-Persepolitan type. Only a trace of the door remains on the right. The back face of the relief shows some large, almost vertical, chisel-marks. Symmetrically on the …
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Buddha and devotees

A panel representing a buddha and two male devotees. The base, from which the buddha's seat is projected, is plain. The upper end of the relief is defined by the profile of the scene. On the bottom face there are two tenons, one at each end. Tool marks are visible …
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Last Existence: Story of the White Elephant

Part of a relief showing the Story of the White Elephant. Devadatta, Siddhārtha’s cousin, kills the state white elephant at the city gate of Kapilavastu, blocking the passage. After Ānanda’s unsuccessful attempt to throw the animal away, the Bodhisattva manages to hurl it out the city’s wall …
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Fantastic animal

A string triangular element of a stair railing representing a winged sea-monster. The figurative field is defined by a plain listel frame. The coiled body occupies the whole figurative field. On the back are parallel point chisel marks, on the sides shallow flat chisel marks. The shorter side presents a …
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Last Existence: First Bath; male and female figures

Fragment of a frieze relief consisting of two superimposed registers. The lower one depicts a scene of the Last Existence of the Buddha, the upper one a row of figures in various attitudes. The registers are separated by a row of stylized thunderbolts between a plain listels. The lower scene …
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Ascetics

Fragment of a relief representing two ascetics. The base is plain. On the back of the relief vertical parallel deep chisel marks are visible. The complete figure in the middle represents a young ascetic standing with the body slightly tilted to his left, with the head turned to his right …
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Female figure

Fragment of a relief representing a woman under an arch. On the top and extant side, there are long tenons. The bust of a female figure stands under a voluted arch with carinated extrados and purlins joists. The figure is standing, her bust slightly tilted to her proper left. The …
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Capital

A Gandhara-Corinthian capital. Two four-petalled rosettes stand lateral on the abacus. On both sides, there is a four-petalled rosette adjacent to the front side. On the bottom of the capital, there is a rectangular socket.
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Male figure

Fragment of a relief of which only the defaced bust of a male figure and the upper part of an encased column of the Gandharan-Corinthian type remain. On the right stands a defaced male figure wearing a turban, earrings, and a set of necklaces.
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Male figures

Fragment of a relief with two male figures. The one on the right probably holds a lotus in the left hand, and the right rests on the hip. He wears a paridhāna and an uttarīya, a short flat-band necklace and a long necklace. The figure on the left is shown …
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Figures

Fragment of a relief with three heads, one of which is placed in the background behind the two figures in the foreground. Only the head on the left side still has recognizable features. This male figure has a moustache and wears a skull-cap turban with zones, a fantail, a diadem …
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Male figure

Part of a relief, probably a cornice, preserving a male figure. The base probably consisted of a projecting plain fillet, the cornice of a projecting plain fillet and a plain band. A rectangular tenon is preserved on the top face. The bust of a male devotee is shown in a …
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Rosettes

Fragment of a relief showing a lattice of continuous rosettes with six lanceolated bordered petals and pistil. On one of the longer sides remains a rebated plain border.
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Phytomorphic decorative motif

Fragment of a relief with a lattice of continuous rosettes with six lanceolated bordered petals and pistil. The base is a plain listel. Irregular tool marks on the back. On the left side of the sculpted surface, there is a plain border and a framed pilaster on a stepped base …
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Cornice

Part of a decorated cornice. The architrave has two receding double bands and the cornice is carved with a row of vertical separate acanthus leaves with plain leaves behind.
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