
- Palette: goddess on sea moster
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Palette: goddess on sea moster
- Place of origin:
Gandhara (made)
- Date:
1st century (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown
- Materials and Techniques:
Schist
- Credit Line:
Given by Prof. K.de B. Codrington, 1958.
- Museum number:
IS.3-1958
- Gallery location:
In Storage
Physical description
The palette has a flat rim with notched triangles and a plain flat base with a thin ridge below the raking rim. The lower part is missing. The goddess wears a sleeved garment with a striped cloak over it, falling to the knees-probably a version of a himation draped over shoulders and upper body. A cloak flies in a circle over her head, caught by the wind in a manner familiar in classical art for various out-of-door ladies, with its forked end behind her back. She holds a shallow bowl on the fingertips of her right hand. The monster is the classical ketos, with ears, finny gills, flippers and fish tail. It turns its head back towards her.
Place of Origin
Gandhara (made)
Date
1st century (made)
Artist/maker
Unknown
Materials and Techniques
Schist
Dimensions
Diameter: 12 cm, Height: 1.3 cm
Object history note
Francfort, 1979, no.41, pl.21.
Descriptive line
Palette depicting a goddess on sea monster, schist, 1st century, Gandhara
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
p. 156, pl. 156
The Crossroads of Asia : transformation in image and symbol in the art of ancient Afghanistan and Pakistan / edited by Elizabeth Errington and Joe Cribb with Maggie Claringbull. Cambridge: Ancient India and Iran Trust, 1992 Number: 0951839918
Production Note
Sirkap, Taxila, Gandhara
Categories
Sculpture
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection