Cosmetic Tray
2nd century- 5th century (made)
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Circular stone dish with a damaged rim. The central part is divided into two parts, with a horizontal divider separating them. The upper, larger segment,has a semi-circular floral motif with seven petals curving over at their ends with beaded decoration running down each of their centres. The lower part has more sketchily carved petal decoration carved with crudely incised lines radiating from a featureless lump of stone in the middle. The rim is largely missing from this lower part but in the upper left hand quadrant a running husk motif is still clearly visible.
Object details
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Carved schist |
| Brief description | Sculpture, schist |
| Physical description | Circular stone dish with a damaged rim. The central part is divided into two parts, with a horizontal divider separating them. The upper, larger segment,has a semi-circular floral motif with seven petals curving over at their ends with beaded decoration running down each of their centres. The lower part has more sketchily carved petal decoration carved with crudely incised lines radiating from a featureless lump of stone in the middle. The rim is largely missing from this lower part but in the upper left hand quadrant a running husk motif is still clearly visible. |
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| 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.339 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.110-1939 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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