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Description
Digitization for the AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology Negatives & Slides Collection was sponsored by the Modern Endangered Archives Program with funding from Arcadia. Oval reel containing a relief image of floral design on front This object was housed at the Late Ramlingappa Lamture Government Museum, Ter, Osmanabad, Maharashtra, India at the time of photography in 1975. It's an impression of a cast depicting Lajja Gauri (a deity usually associated with fertility). The sculpture was discovered at Ter, an important trade center on the ancient Maritime Silk route. Ter has been identified as Tagara, which has been mentioned in the Periplus of Erythraean Sea (The periplus is a logbook recording sailing itineraries and commercial, political and ethnographic details about the ports visited. The Periplus of Erythrean sea is a Greco Roman periplus that describes navigation and trading opportunities from Roman Egyptian ports along Red Sea, ports along Horn of Africa, the Persian Gulf, Arabian sea and Indian Ocean, which included modern Sindh region of Pakistan and Southwestern regions of India). The object material is fired red clay. The object material is fired red clay. The dimensions are 4.3 (L) x 3.6 (B) x 1.3 (Thickness) cm. Sealing with stamp seal impression showing pot with flower.
Type
image
Identifier
103638 ark:/21198/z12r9dz1 Walter Spink Negative, Box 110/75
Subject
Artefact Terracottas (sculptural works) Stamp seal
Source
AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology Negatives & Slides
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