Silver Casket
Details
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Title
Silver Casket
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Associated place
north-west India (possible) (possible place of creation)Afghanistan (possible) (possible place of creation)Gandhara (possible) (possible place of creation) -
Date
1st - 3rd century AD (AD 1 - 300) -
Material and technique
sheet silver, undercutting
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Object type
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Dimensions
5.44 x 4.2 x 4.22 cm (height x width x depth) -
No. of items
2
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Credit line
Presented by Simon Digby, 1994.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1994.82
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Further reading
Jongeward, David, Buddhist Art of Gandhara in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2019), no. 9 on p. 29
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