All major sites marking key events in the life of the Buddha assumed an ongoing importance in the Buddhist world as major pilgrim centres. The production of votives and other auspicious objects was an important activity, both for objects to be deposited by pilgrims as meritorious offerings, and to be taken away as pilgrim souvenirs. This clay votive would have served as a religious souvenir. It depicts the Buddha enthroned on a lotus (padmasana), seated in the earth-touching gesture (bhumisparshamudra). He is flanked by two flywhisk-bearing attendant bodhisattvas, one flanked by a lotus stem, suggesting an identification as Avalokiteshvara-Padmapani. All three figures have flaming halos, standing on lotus plinths. The Buddha’s posture points to this seal being produced at Bodhgaya, the site of the Buddha’s enlightenment. The entire composition is surrounded by chaityas, small stupas, and a seal impression in the lower rim bears an indecipherable inscription.