The Buddha is sitting on a moulded plain seat with grass spread on it. His right hand is abhayamudrā, the left held an edge of the saṃghāti. He is wrapped in the overrobe covering the feet. The drapery folds are rendered in well-spaced, relatively flat, round ridges. He has a …

A stele statue depicting a bodhisattva, possibly Maitreya. The back show tool marks. The standing bodhisattva was originally in abhayamudrā while the left hand possibly held the kamaṇḍalu, traces of which seem to be discernible over the proper left edge of the paridhāna. The head is lost, there are remnants …

A fragment of a relief preserving the half-upper section of two scenes from the Buddha’s Last Existence, separated by a framed half-column of the Gandharan-Corinthian type. The cornice is decorated with a row of alternating rosettes and vertical acanthus leaves. The top face shows a rectangular socket. In the …

Part of a relief showing 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. On the left …

A relief displaying four bodhisattvas. The base is plain. The cornice is projecting and originally decorated with a row of ogival upright leaf-and-dart between a fillet. A rectangular socket is carved in the bottom face. A circular hole for nail is drilled in the top centre of the figured field …

A stele statue depicting the Buddha. The base is carved with a row of saw-teeth above and two square panels bisected into triangles. The Buddha is standing frontally. His right hand was in abhayamudrā, the left is holding an edge of the saṃghāti. The drapery of the overrobe is rendered …

A relief preserving a buddha and two male devotees, each sitting under an arch. They are separated by a framed half-column of the Gandharan-Corinthian type with long flutes. The base is plain, and the cornice is decorated with a row of carenated upright leaf-and-dart. A rectangular socket is carved on …

Upper left corner of a relief depicting buddha and devotee. On the top there is a small rectangular tenon and two vertical sockets, one of which is continuous and positioned at the centre of the extant surface. On the back there is a continuous vertical socket whose section is visible …

A panel with three registers of decoration, the lower one representing scenes from the last existence. There are vertical parallel chisel marks on the back. The base is a plain projecting band, the cornice is a row of vertical separate acanthus leaves with plain leaves behind. The lower register is …

Fragment of a relief depicting the First Sermon. After attaining Enlightenment in Bodh Gayā, the Buddha travels to Sarnath. In the Deer Park, he teaches the dharma to the five ascetics with whom he had shared years of practice. Remnants of the Buddha’s profile are barely visible on the …