Garland bearers

Part of a cornice, depicting three garland-bearers and figures. The cornice is a plain fillet. The back face shows tool marks going in various directions. From the right, a garland bearer is standing, the upper part of the body is frontal, the lower is slightly turning towards his left. The right leg is bent so that the right hand can pick a thorn from the right sole. His left hand is holding the garland resting on his left shoulder. He is naked with probably a thread cinching the waist. He has long pendent earrings and a large necklace with two strands and a central diadem. He also has bracelets and an armlet on the visible right arm. The second garland bearer stands frontal, with the right hand on the outthrust hip, the left leg slightly bent, carrying the garland on his left shoulder. He wears a short dhotī and his waist is cinched as the in the first figure. He wears identical jewellery as the other garland bearer. The next, badly damaged, garland bearer is depicted in a dance position with the left leg folded up across the other leg. In the two remnant hollows of the garland there are as many busts. The first one is very damaged, but it seems to mirror the one on the left. They are male figures wearing a turban with a frontal knot, a necklace and long pendent earrings. They hold, in the external hands, a long feather fan. The garland is waving and each of its sections is decorated differently. The first curve bears rows of pearls separated by plain listels, the second one is decorated with rows of square panels bisected into triangles each containing a smaller triangle, and the last one – of which only a fragment remains – is decorated with stylized lanceolate leaves. From the bottom of each lower curve hang three pendant elements. All the ribbons are plain.