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Digitization for the AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology Negatives & Slides collection was sponsored by the Modern Endangered Archives Program with funding from Arcadia. Partially damaged fragment of a bas relief depicting Dipankara jataka ( the story of ascetic Sumedha and the Buddha Dipankara). Detail showing Vajrapani as Heracles This object was housed at the National Museum of Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan at the time of photography in 1971, It was documented under the supervision of Dr Walter Spink. Stylistically the sculpture belongs to Gandhara period that ranged from 200 - 499 CE. It was discovered from Hadda, a major Greco - Buddhist site located near to the city of Jalalabad, in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. The object material for the sculpture is schist and its dimension is 22.0 (H) x 27.0 (L) cm. Museum accession number at the time of documentation was 62.3.72. The panel represents Dipankara Jataka, the narrative depicts Sumedha in act of throwing flowers upon Dipankara Buddha (predecessor of Buddha Sakyamuni, within the same scene Sumedha is again shown as prostrating at the feet of Dipankara Buddha. (Refer: pg: 360. Tissot, F. (2006). Catalogue of the National Museum of Afghanistan 1931 - 1985. Paris, France: UNESCO Publishing. Retrieved from https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000148244)
Type
image
Identifier
86635.0 ark:/21198/z1839xft Walter Spink Collection, Box 48/71
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Gandhara Vajrapani Megha Buddha Prakriti Dipankara Sumedha Jataka Hercules Stone (sculptural works) Zeus Heracles Bodhisattva Architectural fragment Spink, Walter M
Source
AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology Negatives & Slides
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