Palette with Nereids, or sea nymphs, riding ketoi, or sea monsters

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Palette with Nereids, or sea nymphs, riding ketoi, or sea monsters (EA1996.82, front )

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Details

Title

Palette with Nereids, or sea nymphs, riding ketoi, or sea monsters
Associated place

Gandhara (place of creation)
Date

1st century AD (AD 1 - 100)
Kushan Period (AD 50 - 600)
Material and technique

schist
Material index

schist
Technique index

carved
Object type

religious/ritual equipment;

cosmetic-palette
Dimensions

1.8 cm (height)
13.7 cm (diameter)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Purchased, 1996.
Museum location

Ground floor | Gallery 12 | India to AD 600
Museum department

Eastern Art
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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