Articles by DiGA

Pipal scroll

Fragment of a cornice depicting a pipal scroll.
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Garuḍa

Fragment of a relief depicting the head of a figure with bird-like facial features, probably Garuḍa. The head is depicted besides the extrados of an arch of Indian type with pendent. The arch frame is decorated with a row of saw-teeth. The figure is in three quarter left profile, he …
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Ascetics

Part of a relief depicting ascetics. On the back there is a small circular drill hole, which does not cut across the relief. On the right there are remnants of a figure in right profile, whose body is curved forward, suggesting old age. Next, to him, in the centre of …
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Buddha

Fragment of a relief or statue depicting Buddha of which only part of the face and head remains. The figure has a plump face with large eyes and a straight nose. The hair was rendered with vertical rows of waves.
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Male devotee

Fragment of a relief depicting a male figure standing besides the jamb of a city door. The figure is frontal, the upper body slightly tilted to his proper right. The weight of the body rests on the right leg, while the left is slightly bent. He wears a paridhāna and …
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Buddha

Part of an headless statue depicting Buddha seated on a low seat whose front side is decorated with rosettes within filleted lozenges and half-rosettes in the resulting triangles. Buddha is seating in padmasāna wrapped in the overrobe with feet covered. He was probably holding an hem of the saṃghāti in …
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Buddha

Part of a statue depicting Buddha. There are horizonthal chisel marks on the back. The Buddha wears a robe with a round neckline and has a large plain nimbus.
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Buddha

Torso of a stucco statue depicting the Buddha.
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Buddha

Lower part of a stucco statue depicting the Buddha seated in padmasāna with hands in dhyanamudrā. His feet are covered, and his robe falls on the front of the seat in a diaper fold.
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Bodhisattva

Part of a statue depicting a Bodhisattva. The figure wears a paridhāna, uttarīya, and a necklace set including a long necklace with multiple strands and a central stone, a short flat band necklace, and a crossed cord (brahmanical) passing under the right armpit with amulet boxes (kavaca).
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Garland bearers

Fragment of a relief preserving a garland-bearer and part of another one. There are large parallel chisel marks on the back side. On the top there is a deeply incised V-shaped mark. The cornice consists of a fillet, probably plain. On the right, a male bearer is standing frontal, his …
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Bracket

The body of a bracket with a longitudinal grove on the proper left.
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Buddha and figures

Fragment of a relief depicting Buddha accompanied by other figures. The cornice is a plain fillet. Only part of the Buddha’s head is visible, surrounder by tree branches. To his proper left on the foreground there is the ourline of a figure with nimbus, above it, emerges from the …
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Rosette

Fragment of a stūpa umbrella with a border decorated with a straight festoon of lanceolate leaves and a framed rosette. A circular drill hole, cuts across the surface close to the hem.
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Winged lion (?)

Part of the capital of a pilaster with a corner winged lion. Of the capital remains a central part with a miniature Corinthian capital, and the side part probably depicting a winged lion.
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Acanthus leaves

Part of a capital of the Gandharan-Corinthian type belonging to a pilaster.
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Lattice with oblique relief fillets

Fragment of a cornice decorated with a lattice with oblique relief fillets between plain framings. On the bottom there is a socket from cramp perpendicular to the proper right side.
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Lattice with oblique relief fillets

Part of a cornice decorated with a lattice with oblique relief fillets inside a plain framing. There are tool marks on the back. On the top there is a socket from cramp besides the proper right side. This side is decorated with concentric rectangles.
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Buddhas

Part of a drum of small stūpa depicting buddhas in meditation. On the top there is a rectangular socket perpendicular to the right end, and remnants on another socket on the opposite end. The back of the piece is part of the drum central hole, the inner surface bears large …
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