Dome of a reliquary in the form of a stupa
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Details
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Title
Dome of a reliquary in the form of a stupa
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Associated place
Gandhara (place of creation) -
Date
1st - 2nd century AD (AD 1 - 200)
Kushan Period (AD 50 - 600) -
Material and technique
grey schist
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Object type
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Dimensions
5.5 cm (height)
5.7 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Friends of the Ashmolean Museum, 1978.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 12 | India to AD 600 -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1978.127.b
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Further reading
Harle, J. C., and Andrew Topsfield, Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1987), no. 19 on p. 16, pp. 9, 14, 38, & 56, illus. p. 16
Jongeward, David, Buddhist Art of Gandhara in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2019), no. 3 on p. 25
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