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A SCHIST HARMIKA BLOCK WITH BUDDHA BEING VENERATED
ANCIENT REGION OF GANDHARA, 2ND/3RD CENTURY4 3/4 x 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (12 x 21 x 21 cm)
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犍陀羅 二/三世紀 片岩佛陀受拜圖平頭柱This rectangular block is carved on all sides with depictions of Buddha—and in one instance a bodhisattva—being venerated by followers. The carving is very similar in style and subject to a panel published in Ingholt, Gandharan Art in Pakistan, New York, 1959, no.243. The block would have formed the base of the harmika section of a small stupa, positioned immediately above the stupa's drum. Another harmika block with different subject matter, but of similar scale is published in Jongeward, Buddhist Art of Gandhara in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2019, p.52, 23A-D.ProvenanceThe Estate of Benjamin M. Rice II, New York, by 1998