Buddha and devotee

Part of a relief depicting a buddha and a devotee. The base is plain, the cornice is decorated with a net with oblique lines surmounted by a plain listel. A socket for cramp is visible on the bottom left. The relief depicts a buddha and a devotee separated by a framed engaged semi-column of the Gandharan-Corinthian type incised with two parallel horizontal groves on the shaft. On the right, the devotee is sitting under a voluted round arch with a carinated extrados and pendants. He is seen in a three-quarter view, sitting cross-legged, with his left knee raised. His chest is turned towards the buddha, his hands clasped in mukula-hāsta. He wears a long-sleeved tunic (?) and an uttarīya (?), wristlets and anklets. On the left, the buddha is represented in a strictly frontal view, sitting in padmāsana, his hands in dhyānamudrā and his head set against a large plain nimbus. He is wrapped in the overrobe covering hands and feet. The garment displays a V-shaped neckline, falls in lateral folds on the chest and forms a triangular lower hem. The schematic treatment of the two figures prevents from specifying their respective hairstyle and facial features. The hair is rendered by vertical strands and the eyes by small pellets.