Buddha and devotees

Part of a figured architectural element, possibly a harmikā of a little stūpa, preserving a buddha and devotees on one side, and part of the same scene on another. The base consists of a plain band, the cornice of straight festoon with lozenges between two plain fillets. The piece had originally four sides and a central hole for the pinnacle. The scene on the extant face is framed by pilasters of the Gandharan-Corinthian type with a short flute on the shaft. Only the base of the pilaster on the right is still visible. The buddha is sitting in padmāsana and dhyānamudrā on a seat covered with grass. He is wrapped in the overrobe, with covered feet. A male devotee stands to his proper right wearing a paridhāna and an uttarīya. His hair falls on the shoulders. On the opposite side stands another devotee wearing a paridhāna and an uttarīya, and large earrings. Both devotees are turned toward the buddha and hold an offer bowl in their hands. On the right face of the object remains a pillar, and part of the same scene including the devotee on the left of the buddha, the buddha’s left leg and elbow and part of his seat. The devotee wears a paridhāna and an uttarīya. He is turned toward the buddha and holds an object in his hands, arguably an offering bowl as in the other extant scene.