Figurine

Relief

29-64-234

From: India | Near Baramula

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Object Number 29-64-234
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Indian
Provenience India | Near Baramula
Date Made First Century BCE
Section Asian
Materials Stone
Technique Relief
Iconography Torso | putti?
Description

Small torso. Dark gray, not the fine-grained black stone. Nude torso of a putti, head gong and legs at ankles, left hand at waist holds edge of a sort of short linen skirt(?). Right hand bent at elbow holds forward a lotus bud(?). Quite Greek.

Length 15.3 cm
Width 8 cm
Credit Line Alexander Scott Expedition to India, 1915-1918

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