Maitreya

A stele statue depicting Maitreya. The base is moulded, the cornice is projecting and decorated with a row of ogival upright leaf-and-dart. The front face shows a framed row of rosettes separated by a vertical fillet. The same are carved on both sides of the base. The back and bottom faces show tool marks. Maitreya is standing frontally, the weight of the body is placed on his left leg. The right hand was in abhayamudrā, the left held the kamaṇḍalu. He has a circular ūrṇā in relief, arched eyebrows, closed eyes, a pointed nose, and a thin mouth. His hair, rendered with vertical waves with locks falling on the shoulders, is pulled up in a side loop. The central knot is tied by a plain ring at its base. He wears a paridhāna and an uttarīya exposing the torso and covering the left shoulder. Nipples and areolas are carved in slight relief, while the navel is rendered in a hollow, flattened circle. He has thong sandals with linked disk decorated with a circular stone. His body is adorned with several ornaments. He has a short, flat band necklace decorated with a row of opposite triangles separated by a vertical fillet, a long multiple strands necklace with horned-monster head endings facing a central stone, a long cross-piece to the right shoulder with stones, and a crossed cord passing under the right armpit with kavacas. He wears a lobed armlet, ring-shaped earrings, and a string of beads around the head.