Bowl or ladle with horse's head

Bowl or ladle with horse's head (EA1976.122, front )

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Details

Title

Bowl or ladle with horse's head
Associated place

Imit (find spot)
Date

5th - 3rd century BC (500 - 201 BC)
Material and technique

copper
Material index

copper
Technique index

cast
Object type

figurine;

bowl;

ladle
Dimensions

6.5 x 14.5 x 11.8 cm (height x width x depth)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by the Estate of Sir Aurel Stein, 1963.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1976.122

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Further reading

Harle, J. C., and Andrew Topsfield, Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1987), p. 5

Ahuja, Naman, Art and Archaeology of Ancient India: Earliest Times to the Sixth Century (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2018), no. 27B

Stein, Aurel, ‘Archaeological Notes from the Hindukush Region’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1/April, (April 1944), pp. 15-16, pl. III a

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