Buddha and devotees

Part of a panel depicting two scenes with buddha and devotees. There are parallel vertical chisel marks on the back. On the extant end of the top side there is a socket for cramp. On the proper right side there is a rebated joint. The proper left side also appears to have had a rebated part but carved deeper into the section. The base of the panel is a plain fillet, the cornice is an architrave composed by a fillet with a discontinuous row of saw-teeth (this part of the cornice is interrupted above the Buddha’s head), two plain fillets, and a row of upright ogival leaves. The scene on the left is very damaged and incomplete. There is a buddha in the middle seated on a low seat covered with grass. He is wrapped in the overrobe that covers his feet, the right hand is up in an unidentifiable position or holding something, the left hold a hem of the samghāṭi. To the buddha’s left are visible the feet and the outlines of two figures, probably devotees. Another pair of feet is visible on the opposite side. The second scene depict a buddha sitting under a tree. He’s wrapped in the overrobe, the hands are missing. The right hand was originally up to hold something or in an identifiable gesture. There are two devotees to each side of the buddha. The closer ones are female. They wear large anklets and the curvier profile of their body and hair confirm their gender presentation. Of the other two the gender is undiscernible. In the upper part of the scenes there are three heads emerging from the background: a female figure on the right and two males on the left. The scenes are separated by a semi-column of Gandharan-Corinthian type with scant remnants of a buddha depicted on the shaft.