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Title: Terracotta plaque
Contributor: Om Prakash
Dayasaran
Date Created and/or Issued: April - May 1986
1986-04-01/1986-05-01
Publication Information: Kausambi, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh (India)
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Modern Endangered Archives Program
Collection: AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology Negatives & Slides
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Digitization for the AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology Negatives & Slides Collection was sponsored by the Modern Endangered Archives Program with funding from Arcadia.
Plaque with impression of elephant trampling another animal possibly a bovine
This object was housed at the G R Sharma Memorial Museum (earlier known as Allahabad University Museum), Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India at the time of photography in 1986. Executed in-between 400 - 499 CE this sculpture was recovered from Kausambi, Prayagraj district, Uttar Pradesh. The object material is terracotta. The dimension of the figure is 6.0 (L) cm.
Type: image
Identifier: 76959
ark:/21198/z1kh69nv
(618.1 - 618.100), Box 618.54
Subject: Artefact
Terracottas (sculptural works)
Stamp seal
Source: AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology Negatives & Slides

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