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Pilgrimage

A selection of objects from different world religions associated with the physical and spiritual journey of pilgrimage.

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Detail of Pilgrim map of Varanasi, or Benares, early 20th century, north India, (Museum no: EA1966.5

Collection trails: 1 object

Base of a reliquary in the form of a stupaoblique

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Associated place

Asia › Gandhara (place of creation)

Date

1st century AD (AD 1 - 100)
Kushan Period (AD 50 - 600)

Material and technique

grey schist

Dimensions

2.5 cm (height)
6.9 cm (diameter)

Material index

inorganic › stone › schist

Technique index

formed › carved,

carved

Object type index

production/replication › model,

religious/ritual equipment › reliquary,

religious/ritual equipment › shrine › stupa,

miscellaneous equipment › model,

architecture › building/structure › shrine › stupa

No. of items

1

Credit line

Purchased with the assistance of the Friends of the Ashmolean Museum, 1978.

Accession no.

EA1978.127.a
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

Cambridge: Fitzwilliam Museum, 6 October-13 December 1992, The Crossroads of Asia: Transformation in Image and Symbol in the Art of Ancient Afghanistan and Pakistan, Elizabeth Errington, Joe Cribb, and Maggie Claringbull, eds, 90 (Cambridge: Ancient India and Iran Trust, 1992), No.174

Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum, 2 April-16 July 1995, Buddha in Indien: Die frühindische Skulptur von König Asoka bis zur Guptazeit, Deborah E. Klimburg-Salter, ed. (Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum and Milan: Skira, 1995), no. 125 on p. 155, illus. p. 155 fig. 125

Location

- Ground floor | Room 12 | India to 600

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