Fragment of a false-bracket with a male protome.
The figure emerges from a tuft of acanthus leaves and is set against a volute joining the back of his head set against a nimbus. The figure has a mustache and wears an elaborate turban with a crest, large earrings, and a …
Fragment of a relief depicting a buddha, a monk, and a devotee (?). On the right, part of the plain nimbus, the right hand as well as the right knee of a buddha seated in padmāsana are visible. The right hand is in abhayamudrā. The buddha wore a densely draped robe …
Fragment of a relief depicting two superimposed male figures.
The upper figure holds a cross chest draper scarf that he is probably waving with his left hand. His earrings and a long plain necklace are still visible. The lower figure wears a turban with twisted horizontal bands and crest (fantail …
Fragment of a relief showing a garland-bearer and a figure emerging in bust in the upper hollow. The relief has a plain cornice. The garland is carved with overlapping lanceolate leaves facing right. The lower curve is decorated with a rosette. The garland rests on the left shoulder of the …
Fragment of a projecting figured bracket depicting a buddha inside a cave. The buddha is wrapped in the overrobe and his head is set against a plain nimbus. His hair is parted in middle, with horizontal broken waves and separate uṣṇīṣa. He has elongated ears, an incised ūrṇā, and half-closed …
A figured bracket-spacer depicting a therioanthropic male figure.
He is sitting, the right leg is bent down, and the left knee is raised up. He has a protruding belly and a flabby chest. His right hand rests on the ground, while his left hand was originally raised up with the …
A figured bracket-spacer depicting a therioanthropic male figure. He is sitting, the right leg is bent down, and the left knee is raised up. He has a protruding belly, a flabby chest, and a humpback. The navel is rendered by a circular indent. His right elbow sits on the right …
Part of a frieze relief preserving two scenes from the Princely Life. The scenes are divided by a framed half-column of the Gandharan-Corinthian type. The base is plain. A rectangular section tenon is carved on the bottom face. Horizontal marks of chisel are visible on the back face.
The scene …
A relief depicting the Dīpaṃkara legend.
The bodhisattva as the ascetic Sumati pays homage to Dīpaṃkara – a buddha of the past – by launching flowers obtained from a woman and by spreading his hair on the ground to make a passage over the mud for the Awakened One. Then, Sumati vows …
Relief depicting a buddha with devotees. The scene is framed by two Gandharan-Corinthian pilasters featuring a short flute with a convex lower bevelled end. The base is moulded, the cornice was decorated with a row of bordered upright ogival leaf-and-dart.
The buddha is sitting in padmāsana and dhyānamudrā on a …
A stele statue depicting the Buddha. The base consists of two superimposed projecting plain fillets, the cornice of two superimposed projecting fillets, the lower one being decorated with a row of staggered bars, the upper one being plain. The front shows a row of square panels bisected into triangles each …
A relief depicting the Bodhisattva in Tuṣita Heaven. Tuṣita is the abode of the deities and bodhisattvas. The buddha-to-be Maitreya resides here, as other bodhisattvas do before they are reborn in the human realm as buddhas. Śākyamuni also resided in Tuṣita before his last existence.
The base is plain, the …
A stele statue depicting the Buddha. The back face shows horizontal marks of chisel.
The Buddha is sitting in padmāsana and dhyānamudrā on a four-legged backless throne. The face is plump with almond-shaped half-closed eyes, a broad nose, and a thin mouth. The hair is rendered in vertical broken waves …
A frieze relief, probably a cornice, showing three palmettes each an inside architectural element. The decorative motifs in the figured field are separated by a half-column of the Gandharan-Persepolitan type, and by a corner framed half-column of the same type on the left-proper side and left-proper face. The base consists …
Part of a relief frieze depicting two scenes from the Life in the Palace – that on the left is broken. The base consists of a projecting plain band. The scenes are separated by a pilaster of the Gandharan-Corinthian type with a short flute featuring a concave lower bevelled end. A …
A relief depicting Māyā’s dream. Māyā, the queen consort of Śuddhodana, dreams of a white elephant entering her womb through her right side. As soon as she wakes up, she finds out to be pregnant.
The scene was encased between two framed pilasters of the Gandharan-Corinthian type with a …
A figured bracket-spacer depicting a therioanthropic male figure. He is seating with the left leg extended to the side. He is holding his penis with the right hand, the left is raised up. The figure is naked, with prominent chest and belly, the latter carved with a circular navel. The …
Fragment of a relief preserving the upper part of a female figure. She is standing frontally and is clad in a long tunic with a girdle under the breasts and probably a mantle draped over her left arm. Traces of bracelets are discernible on the right wrist.
Fragment of a relief, probably the proper right side of a false niche, either a lunette or a carinated arch. On the right is a male figure preserving only the lower body, on the left is a female figure encased in a plain fillet frame, originally part of a vertical …