Articles by DiGA

Acanthus leaves

A cornice decorated with a row of vertical separate acanthus leaves with stylized plain leaves behind. On each end of the top face there is a socket for cramp. On the bottom a long horizontal socket runs almost across the entire length, and parallel flat chisel marks are visible along …
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Vine scroll

Fragment of a slab with phytomorphic decoration. On the bottom there is a socket for cramp per side. On the top side, toward the back of the extant piece, there is a mark on each side: a / to the left and an x to the right. On the front and …
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Male devotee

Fragment of a panel depicting a devotee under a door. A rectangular tenon is preserved on the top of the fragment. The male figure, of which only the head and upper body remain, is standing turned to his right. His hands are joined in a gesture of veneration. He wears …
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Last Existence: Unidentified scene

Fragment of a relief originally showing a scene from the Buddha's Last Existence, of which only the forelegs and one of the rear hooves of a horse in left profile remain. The lower part of an encased semi-column is visible on the left. The base consists of a plain fillet …
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Ascetics

Fragment of a relief depicting two ascetics. There are tool marks on the back. The ascetic on the right is shown from behind, holding something, perhaps the branch of a tree. His hair is with a coil and a vertical knot. His head is turned to his left towards the …
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Devotees

Fragment of a relief depicting two male devotees. A round nail hole cuts across the relief between the two figures’s hips. The two male devotees stand with hands joined in a gesture of veneration, and they are turned towards the right. They both wear a paridhāna and an uttarīya …
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Monk and figures

Fragment of a relief depicting figures, of which only remains a standing monk wrapped in the overrobe and holding in both hands an oblong object covered in a cloth. Traces of two more figures are visible beside him.
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Buddha

A stele statue representing the Buddha. On the back side, there are horizontal tool marks in a particularly packed pattern; more tool marks are visible on the bottom. The headless figure seats in padmāsanā and dhyanamudrā on a throne with turned legs and a decorated drape on the front. He …
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Male figure

Fragment of a relief representing a male figure standing under a door. The figure stands frontal, head tilted to his right, with a club in the right hand. He was probably naked and has short hair. The male figure stands under a door with raised voluted round arch with pendants …
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Semi-column of the Gandharan-Persepolitan type

Fragment of a relief depicting a semi-column of Gandharan-Persepolitan type. On the back, there are large horizontal flat chisel marks. Only the base, the pot-shaped element and the shaft are preserved. To the right, there are traces of the volute and pendant of an arch.
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Figure

Part of a relief depicting two figures under doors. Only the left haunch of the arch on the right is still extant. It has a volute, pendant and purlins in the intrados. This door is divided from the next by a column of Gandharan-Persepolitan type. A figure, whose gender cannot …
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Male figure

Part of a relief depicting a male figure under a door. The base consists of a plain fillet. A male figure stands naked, slightly turned to his left, his right hand touching the opposite intrados. The door has a voluted arch with carinated extrados, pendants and purlins in the intrados …
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Bodhisattva

Head of a bodhisattva with hair with a web of ornaments and a central knot. There are scant remains of a nimbus.
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Bodhisattva and devotee

Fragment of a relief depicting a bodhisattva - probably Siddhārtha - and a male devotee. There is a vertical continuous tenon on the proper left side. On the right there is the upper part of an encased semi-column of Gandharan-Corinthian type. The remaining figured field depicts a standing male figure, slightly turned …
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Last Existence: Birth Cycle

Fragment of a frieze with two superimposed registers, the upper one is not preserved, the lower one depicting two episodes from the Birth Cycle. The two registers are separated by a row of vertical acanthus leaves. There are large parallel chisel marks on the back. The scene on the right …
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