Lidded relic-box from a reliquary
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Title
Lidded relic-box from a reliquary
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Associated place
Gandhara (place of creation) -
Date
2nd - 4th century AD (AD 101 - 400) -
Material and technique
silver
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Object type
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Dimensions
1.15 cm (height)
1.7 cm (diameter) -
No. of items
2
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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.d
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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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