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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. Mold for Buddhist votive seal This object was housed at the Late Ramlingappa Lamture Government Museum, Ter, Osmanabad, Maharashtra, India at the time of photography in 1975. Executed in between 99 BCE - 299 CE , this 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 Erythrean 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 terracotta. The dimensions of the seal is 6.4 (H) x 4.3 (B) cm x 1.0 (thickness) cm.. The votive seal were used as objects to be deposited by pilgrims as meritorious offerings and to be taken away as pilgrim souvenirs. Here mold is placed next to its impression. The seal depicts Buddha enshrined in stupa. placed within a torana. Inscriptions can be seen on the head of buddha and on lower part.
Type
image
Identifier
103812 ark:/21198/z1g21p3x Walter Spink Negative, Box 345/75
Subject
Votive offerings Buddha Artefact Deity Terracottas (sculptural works) Stupa Stamp seal
Source
AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology Negatives & Slides
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