Head
early third to late fourth century (made)
| Place of origin |
A crudely modelled head and neck from a figure of Buddha. The head has large protuberant eyes with boldly defined lids under arched edges of eyebrows. The hair has a raised edge round the scalp and raises from a peak to a flattish ushnisha. There is a segment of stucco attached on the right hand side which may have been part of an aureole or just part of a plain background to a larger scene.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | mModelled stucco |
| Brief description | Fragmentary stucco head from a figure |
| Physical description | A crudely modelled head and neck from a figure of Buddha. The head has large protuberant eyes with boldly defined lids under arched edges of eyebrows. The hair has a raised edge round the scalp and raises from a peak to a flattish ushnisha. There is a segment of stucco attached on the right hand side which may have been part of an aureole or just part of a plain background to a larger scene. |
| Style | |
| Object history | Acquired from Evert Barger, Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Bristol and Philip Wright, V&A Museum, as part of the collection of finds excavated during their expedition to the Swat valley in 1938. This is no. 40 in Barger's lists. |
| Bibliographic reference | Barger, E. and Wright, P., ‘Excavations in Swat and Explorations in the Oxus Territories of Afghanistan, a detailed report of the 1938 expedition’, Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India, vol. 64, Calcutta, 1941 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | IM.107-1939 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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