Buddha and donors

Upper part of a false niche consisting of a carinated and voluted arch with a disk-like finial. On the back face, there are remnant of a scene with a recognizable standing male figure from a reused panel. The arch frame is decorated with two rows, one per side, of overlapping leaves of pipal pointing and converging in the top in a disk decorated with a concentric circle. The lunette is defined below by a band decorated with three busts in a balcony. The three busts are separated by pilaster shafts with a long flute. Remnants of the parapet show rosettes on the uprights below the plain cornice in correspondence to the pilasters. The lunette depicts a buddha with devotees. Above the lunette there is a section of the framing with a very damaged decoration of probably rosettes of decreasing sizes, the biggest one being on top. On the sides the figured lunette is defined by two simplified rosettes scrolls. In the figured field the buddha is standing with the right hand in abhayamudra and the left holding an hem of the samghāti. To his left stands slightly turned toward him a male figure arguably wearing a dress with long tunic and a coat that holds a now lost object in his hands in front of the chest. To the opposite side of the Buddha stands another male figure, with the upper part of the body tilted toward the central figure. The weight rests on the right leg, while the left is slighlty bent. The right hip is outhrust, the left hand is raised in an unidentified gesture, while the right is down holding a globular vessel at hip height. He wears a paridhāna and uttarīya and has a large short flat necklace.