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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. Part of a frieze. Buddha seated in meditation inside a cave while an attendant or a devotee stands with folded hand on right 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 Sculptural fragment is limestone and its dimension is 11.5 (H) x 39.0 (L) cm. Museum accession number at the time of documentation was 62.3.199.
Type
image
Identifier
86638.0 ark:/21198/z1bp6793 Walter Spink Collection, Box 300/71
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Gandhara Bodhisattva Buddha Jataka Stone (sculptural works) Vajrapani Architectural fragment Spink, Walter M
Source
AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology Negatives & Slides
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