Articles by DiGA

Buddha and devotees

Fragment of a relief preserving a buddha and devotees. The base features a plain moulding, the cornice is decorated with a wavy pattern. Two rectangular nail holes and two horizontal sockets are carved on the top face. The left face shows tool marks, suggesting that the object was possibly reworked …
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Buddha and devotees

Fragment of a simple false-niche, preserving the nave of the lower part and the left-proper voluted semi-arch of the upper part. The two parts are divided by a row of vertical separate acanthus leaves with plain leaves behind. The bottom face shows a triangular tenon. The nave is framed by …
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Last Existence: Story of the White Elephant; female figures

Part of a relief with two superimposed registers, the lower one showing two scenes from the Last Existence - that on the left is not preserved -, the upper one three female figures. The registers are separated by a chequered grid with alternating relief squares. The base consists of a plain fillet …
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Last Existence: Taming of the Elephant

Part of a relief preserving two scenes from the Last Existence. The base consists of a plain listel, the cornice of band decorated with a row of half roundels with a border. The back face shows vertical tool marks. The scenes are separated by a framed male figure standing in …
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Pipal branch

A bracket depicting a branch of a pipal tree. It features five twigs, each showing a leave with lateral ribs rendered with pair of lines. Each twig shows a leave with lateral ribs rendered with pair of lines. The three upwards twigs carry berries.
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Maitreya

A stele statue depicting Maitreya. A circular nail hole is carved in the right-proper part, through the seating of the figure. The back and side faces show horizontal tool marks. Maitreya is sitting in padmāsana on a throne. This latter features a back decorated with rosettes, a cushion, turned legs …
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Winged figure

A bracket-spacer depicting a winged male figure. The back face shows horizontal tool marks. The figure is sitting, the right knee is raised up and the left leg is bent down. The right hand is resting on the knee, the left is bent up. The wings are rendered with simple …
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Donors

Fragment of a cornice preserving two male donors. The base consists of a plain fillet, the cornice of a row of bead-and-reel. A square nail hole and a rectangular socket are carved in the top face. The bottom face shows tool marks. The relief shows two male figures carved in …
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Buddha and devotees

Part of a cornice showing a buddha and devotees each under a voluted round arch with carinated extrados. The base consists of a plain fillet. The cornice preserves four projecting brackets featuring a fillet and a vertical central groove. In the figured field, two female figures facing each other are …
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Devotees

Part of a cornice showing four male devotees each under a carinated arch. The base consists of a plain fillet, the cornice of a row of carenated upright leaf-and-dart. The figures are carved in bust and are separated by framed half-columns of the Gandharan-Corinthian type. The first two figures and …
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Buddha and devotees

Part of a cornice showing a buddha and devotees. The cornice preserves four projecting brackets featuring a fillet and a vertical central groove. A socket rectangular in section is carved in the top face. The same face shows vertical tool marks. In the figured field, a buddha with two female …
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Cornice of monument with stepped pyramids

Part of a cornice of a monument with stepped pyramids. A circular nail hole is drilled in the figured field. The figured field is carved in the shape of a horizontal railing with uprights featuring a central band and a curvilinear profile. On the right is a side band decorated …
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Cornice of monument with stepped pyramids

Part of a cornice of monument with stepped pyramids. A circular nail hole is drilled in the figured field. The back face shows vertical tool marks. The figured field is carved in the shape of a horizontal railing with uprights featuring a central band, curvilinear profile, and bevel.
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Last Existence: Buddha performing a miracle before the ascetics

Fragment of a relief probably belonging to a false-niche, and showing the Buddha performing a miracle before the ascetics. The Buddha visits an ascetic of the Kasyapa lineage and asks him to spend the night in the fire-house. The ascetic accepts but warns the Buddha that a poisonous snake dwells …
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Male devotees

Fragment of a relief preserving three standing male devotees. The base consists of a plain fillet, the cornice originally shown a row of dentils-and-bars of same height and smaller width, traces of which are still discernible. The back face shows vertical tool marks. The figured field shows three standing male …
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Last Existence: Princely Life

Part of a relief with two superimposed registers, the lower one showing two scenes from the Princely Life, the upper one being not preserved. The registers are separated by a projecting straight festoon with overlapping lanceolate leaves. The lower scenes are seprated by a framed half-column of the Gandharan-Corinthian type …
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Garland bearer

Fragment of a relief showing a garland-bearer. The base consists of a projecting plain band. The bearer is standing frontal and is holding the garland on his shoulder, the right arm is bent. He is naked and wears a long necklace. The garland features two pendent elements, namely a rosette …
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Buddha

Fragment of a buddha head. He has a plain nimbus and hair parted in the middle with horizontal broken waves. The uṣṇīṣa is separated.
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Bodhisattva

A stele statue depicting a bodhisattva. A circular nail hole is drilled in correspondence with the figure’s proper-left side. The back face shows horizontal tool marks. The bodhisattva is sitting in padmāsana and dhyānamudrā on a seat with drape hanging on the front. He wears an uttarīya exposing the …
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Last Existence: Māyā’s Dream

A relief showing 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 is encased by a framed pillar of the Gandharan-Corinthian type. The base …
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