Not on display

Photograph

Place of origin

Photograph depicting a Greco Buddhist relief panel in talcose schist (Gandhara School), Gautama the Buddha seated in preaching attitude upon the diamond throne (vajrasana), found at the ruins of a monastery at Takt-i-bahi on the Punjab-Afghan frontier near Peshawar, Pakistan, made ca. 1st to 3rd century.

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Photograph depicting a Greco Buddhist relief panel in talcose schist (Gandhara School), Gautama the Buddha seated in preaching attitude upon the diamond throne (vajrasana), found at the ruins of a monastery at Takt-i-bahi on the Punjab-Afghan frontier near Peshawar, Pakistan, made ca. 1st to 3rd century.
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Collection
Accession number
1127-1924

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Record createdAugust 22, 2013
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