Palette with Nereids, or sea nymphs, riding ketoi, or sea monsters
On displayDetails
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Title
Palette with Nereids, or sea nymphs, riding ketoi, or sea monsters
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Associated place
Gandhara (place of creation) -
Date
1st century BC - 1st century AD (100 BC - AD 100)
Kushan Period (AD 50 - 600) -
Material and technique
grey schist
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Object type
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Dimensions
1.8 cm (height)
13.7 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1996.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 12 | India to AD 600 -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1996.82
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Further reading
Jongeward, David, Buddhist Art of Gandhara in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2019), no. 154 on p. 188
Topsfield, Andrew, ‘Indian Art at the Ashmolean Museum’, Oriental Art, 43/4, (Winter 1997-1998), p. 28, illus. p. 24 fig. 3
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