A bracket-spacer depicting a therianthropic male figure.
The figure is sitting with the left leg extended to the side. The right hand is holding a cup with a small globular foot and ribbed wall, this latter possibly decorated with a wavy motif; the left hand originally held the penis. He …
A bracket spacer depicting a therianthropic male figure. The back face shows horizontal marks of chisel.
The figure is sitting, the left leg extending to the side, the right hand resting on the knee and the left hand raising up. His ears appear to be those of a pig or …
A bracket-spacer depicting a male figure. The back face shows horizontal marks of chisel.
The figure is sitting, the left leg extending to the side, the right hand resting on the ground. The left hand holds a shield with gird and diagonal bands, a rounded top, and straight bottom. His …
A head of Maitreya probably belonging to a statue. He has a long moustache, full lips, and a pointed nose. The eyes are open and marked with incised iris and pupils. The eyebrows are defined by a continuous thick like. A circular ūrṇā is incised on the forehead. He has …
Part of a relief with two superimposed registers, the upper one not preserved, the lower one depicting an episode from the Birth Cycle. The two registers are separated by a plain fillet. The lower scene is encased between two framed semi-columns of the Gandharan-Corinthian type. The base is plain. The …
A frieze relief preserving two figures each standing inside a city door. The base consists of a plain band.
On the right, a male figure is standing semi-frontal and crossed legs inside a city door. His right hand is resting on the hip, the left is holding a palm. He …
Fragment of a relief preserving a male figure, probably an elderly ascetic.
The figure is standing in left profile with joined hands. He has a long beard and hair pulled up in a central coil with two falling locks. He is probably dressed in a tunic of the exomis type …
Part of a frieze relief probably depicting the Visit of the Ascetics. The Brahman teacher Bāvari sends his sixteen brahmin students to the Buddha to answer questions about the goal of his teachings and how to attain the same. Each of the sixteen ascetics pays the Buddha a visit in …
Part of a relief possibly depicting the Visit of Indra. The Buddha is meditating in a cave when the god Indra approaches him with the gandharva Pañcasika. The gandharva plays the harp to draw the Buddha’s attention. The latter eventually answers Indra’s questions on the causes of suffering …
Fragment of a figured architectural element, possibly an harmikā, preserving a buddha with a devotee on the left side. The scene was framed by a pilaster of the Gandharan-Corinthian type, of which only the left one remains. The base is plain, the cornice is carved with a row of tangential …
Head of a Buddha.
The head features half-closed eyes, a broad nose, and a narrow mouth. The hair is styled in stacked coils having curled tips. The uṣṇīṣa appears to be not separate.
Fragment of a relief preserving the bodhisattva Maitreya and a devotee.
Maitreya is sitting in padmāsana and dhyānamudrā probably over a lotus with reverse petals, of which only the pistil remains. He is holding a globular kamaṇḍalu between the fingers of the left hand. He wears a paridhāna and an …
Part of a relief with two superimposed registers, the lower depicting a scene from the Competitions, the upper a row of male figures.
The two registers are separated by a row of lozenges and ovals between upper and lower plain. The lower scene was originally encased by framed half-columns of …
Head of a male figure.
The face is plump and features open eyes with arched eyebrows, a broad nose, and a small mouth with a drooping mustache. The hair is rendered with stacked coils having curled tips. He wears ring-shaped earrings.
A bracket-spacer depicting a male figure.
The male figure is depicted frontal, his head is slightly bent towards his right. His arms are out to the sides, angled down and forward. The long, curly hair falls on his shoulders. He wears a band head. The chest is exposed.
A head of a lion, probably belonging to a figured bracket.
The lion has a gaping mouth with a short tongue dangling, big globular eyes with pupils, and a mane defined by simplified incised lines.
A figured capital preserving a collar and a socket on the bottom face. On one of the sides are visible horizontal marks of chisel.
On all sides is a much-worn figure (probably male) emerging from acanthus leaves.
Part of a relief depicting the Buddha’s birth. In the Lumbinī Park, Māyā gives birth to Siddhārtha holding the branches of a śāla tree. The infant Siddhārtha emerges from the right side. Gods and supernatural beings witness the event.
The base is plain. The back face shows horizontal marks …
A fragment of figured relief preserving a male figure and the right arm of another figure, bent up and holding a bunch of flowers.
The male figure is standing in a three-quarter view towards the left. He wears a paridhāna and an uttarīya with a hem hanging down from the …
Part of a relief depicting the Marriage of the Bodhisattva. Siddhārtha and princess Yaśodharā get married according to the brahmanic tradition.
The scene was encased between a framed pilaster, of which only the lower part of the right one is preserved. The base consists of a projecting plain fillet. The …