Sculpture depicting seated Bodhisattava Maitreya
Details
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Title
Sculpture depicting seated Bodhisattava Maitreya
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Associated place
Abarchinar (find spot)Gandhara (place of creation)Barikot (place of creation)Swat (place of creation) -
Date
1st - 3rd century AD (AD 1 - 300) -
Material and technique
dark grey schist
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Object type
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Dimensions
56.5 x 46.5 x 10.6 cm approx. (height x width x depth) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Mr and Mrs Philip Wright, 1948.
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Museum location
not on display
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EAX.180
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Further reading
Barger, Evert, Philip Wright, Excavations in Swat and explorations in the Oxus territories of Afghanistan: a detailed report of the 1938 expedition, 64, Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India (Delhi: Manager of Publications, 1941), no, 138, pp. 26, 61, pl. V, fig. 4
Jongeward, David, Buddhist Art of Gandhara in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2019), no. 77 on p. 110
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