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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. Two scenes depicting Buddha with a devotee and Bodhisattva, between Indo-Corinthian pilaster Detail of left side of the panel 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
86640.0 ark:/21198/z1m67qs6 Walter Spink Collection, Box 298/71
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Gandhara Vajrapani Buddha Architectural fragment Stone (sculptural works) Bodhisattva Jataka Spink, Walter M
Source
AIIS Center for Art & Archaeology Negatives & Slides
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