Collection

Bodhisattvas

Fragment of a relief displaying the head of two bodhisattvas. The projecting cornice was decorated with a row of vertical separate acanthus leaves with plain leaves behind, now not fully discernible. The back shows vertical tool marks. The bodhisattvas were originally standing, with their heads turning towards the right. They …

Last Existence: Visit of the Ascetics

Fragment of a relief possibly representing the Visit of the Ascetics, of which only two ascetics remain. 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 …

Figures

Fragment of a relief, possibly a cornice, showing two buddhas – that on the right not fully preserved – each standing under a city door. They are separated by a framed pilaster of the Gandharan-Persepolitan type. The base of the cornice is plain, below which is a straight festoon. Of the buddha …

Figures

Fragment of a relief displaying the legs of two figures, probably male. The figured field is defined on the left by a framed half/semi-column, of which only the base and a small shaft section remain. The base was plain. A rectangular tenon is carved on the proper left edge …

Male devotees

Part of a relief, possibly a cornice, showing two identical male devotees – that on the right not fully preserved – each standing under a city door. They are divided by a half/semi-column of the Gandharan-Persepolitan type with a modillion. The base is plain. A rectangular tenon is carved on the …

Male devotee

The proper left section of the semilunette of a false niche showing a male figure. The frame of the semi arch is decorated with a row of saw-teeth, while the inner face of the same is carved with rosettes separated by a plain fillet. Only a scanty portion of the …

Last Existence: Unpreserved scenes; male and female figures

Fragment of a relief with two registers separated by a row of acanthus leaves. The lower register originally shown scenes from the Buddha’s Last Existence, the upper preserves three men, possibly a woman, and traces of another figure. Vertical tool marks run on the back face. The lower register …

Last Existence: Unpreserved scene, Marriage of the Bodhisattva

Fragment of a relief showing the remains of two scenes from the Buddha’s Last Existence separated by a framed half-column of the Gandharan-Corinthian type. The base is plain. A rectangular tenon is carved on the bottom face. The back face shows vertical tool marks. The scene on the right …

Votive lamps

A rectangular stone block carved with two rounded lamps. On one of the sides are the remains of a third lamp.

Last Existence: Visit of the Ascetics

A fragment of a relief representing the Visit of the Ascetics, of which only four ascetics remain. 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 …

Male donor (?)

A fragment of a relief preserving a standing male donor on the right and what seems to be the remains of another figure on the left. The donor is holding a garland with both hands and wearing a paridhāna (?).

Fantastic animal

The proper upper left corner of a triangular element of a stair riser displaying the head and wing of a fantastic animal. The creature is sticking its long tongue out.

Male devotees

Fragment of a false niche depicting two devotees. There are large horizontal tool marks on the back. The remains of the left frame of the arch are visible on the left. The two devotees stand with their hands raised and joined. They probably held objects which are no longer preserved …

Rosettes, vine scroll, festoon

Part of a relief with three rows of phytomorphic motifs. There are tool marks on the back. The lower band depicts a row rosettes separated by vertical fillets. The central, larger band depicts a vine scroll with leaves in the spirals and tendrils. The last row is carved with a …

Rosettes

Fragment of a relief with a lattice of rosettes. There are remnants of a rectangular tenon on the bottom. The panel is decorated with a lattice of rosettes with six lanceolate petals, there is a plain fillet at the base, and a plain band with remnants of a flute on …

Rosettes

Part of a relief depicting rosettes. There is a tenon on the top and one on the bottom. The right end of the front is plain, the sculpted surface is framed. From the right there is a pilaster of Gandharan-Corinthian type with a short flute on the shaft. Follows a …