Figure of a female with elaborate headdress, possibly a yakshi
Details
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Title
Figure of a female with elaborate headdress, possibly a yakshi
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Associated place
Bannu district (possible) (possible place of creation)Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (place of creation)north-west India (place of creation) -
Date
1st century BC - 1st century AD (100 BC - AD 100) -
Material and technique
bronze, hollow cast
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Object type
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Dimensions
10 cm (height) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1993.
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Museum location
not on display
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1993.18
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Glossary of terms
yakshi
Further reading
Ahuja, Naman, Art and Archaeology of Ancient India: Earliest Times to the Sixth Century (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2018), no. 31.2
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