Garland bearers

Part of a cornice, depicting four garland-bearers and figures. The projecting base is moulded. The first two bands from bottom to top are decorated with a half-rosette scroll and a straight festoon with an alternating pattern of oblique weaving lines and pearls between listels. The last two fillets are plain. The cornice is a plain fillet. Remnants of a rectangular socket are preserved on the right part of the top face. The back side shows vertical tool marks. At the two ends of the relief there are encased corner pilasters of the Gandharan-Corinthian type with a short flute on the shaft. The pilasters are repeated on the sides and the projecting base also continues on the sides. From the right, a garland bearer is standing, the lower part of the body is frontal, the upper is turning towards his right. His right hand is holding the garland resting on his right shoulder. He wears a long tunic with short sleeves and holds something in his left hand, probably globular fruits/food. He has long pendent earrings and his hair is pulled back in parallel strokes. The second, badly damaged, garland bearer mirrors the first one. The next two garland bearers also mirror each other. They are slightly turned to look in each other direction, wear a short-sleeved tunic, bracelets and pendent earrings. The first one has short voluminous curls, while the other has flowing hair parted in the centre and bundle of hair tied in a knot falling on midforehead. In the three hollows of the garland there are as many busts. The first one is a winged figure (probably male), wrapped in a mantle, with pendent earrings and the hair arranged in curls around the face. This bust is slightly turned to his right. The second bust as well is a winged male figure. He is slightly turned to his right and holds in his hands a u-shaped garland. He only wears an uttarīya on the left shoulder and a flat band necklace. He has short hair with a loop or knot falling on the right side of the face. He also wears large pendent earrings. The last bust is a naked male figure wearing a flat band necklace and a bracelet on the right wrist. He has large pendent earrings, and short curly hair. He holds a cup in the right hand and has a leather wine contained on the left shoulder; he is depicted in the gesture of pouring the wine. The garland is waving and each of its sections is decorated differently. The first initial section is decorated with stylized lanceolate leaves, follows a damaged curve bearing what seems to be a lattice. The next curve again shows stylized lanceolate leaves. The last one is decorated with rows of square panels bisected into triangles each containing a smaller triangle. The terminal section has stylized lanceolate leaves. From the bottom of each lower curve hang three pendant elements. All the ribbons are plain. In the triangular hollows at the top corners of the figured panel, there is a bird per side.