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Relief fragment depicting Prince Siddhartha, the future Buddha, cutting his hair in renunciation
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Description
In this relief fragment, the prince uses a short sword to cut his hair, prior to becoming a wandering ascetic. The attendant receives his discarded turban.
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Details
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1st century AD (AD 1 - 100)
Kushan Period (AD 50 - 600)
- Associated people
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the Buddha (active c. 560 BC - c. 486 BC) (subject)
- Material and technique
- schist
- Dimensions
- 29.5 x 25.3 x 4.2 cm max. (height x width x depth)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 1997.
- Accession no.
- EA1997.246
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Further reading
Quagliotti, Anna Maria, ‘A Gandharan Bodhisattva with Surya on the Headdress and Related Problems’, Maurizio Taddei and Giuseppe De Marco, eds, South Asian Archaeology 1997: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, 3 vols, Serie orientale Roma, 90 (Rome: Istituto italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, 2000), iii
Koizumi Yoshihide, ‘Study on the Portable Shrines in Northwest India’, Proceedings of the Tokyo National Museum, 35, (2000), fig. 43
Taddei, Maurizio, ‘Some Reflections on the Formation of the Buddha Image: Keynote Address’, Ellen M. Raven, ed., Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, held at the Universiteit Leiden, 5-9 (Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 2008), pp. 3-4, illus. p. 5 fig. 1.3
Location
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Ground floor | Room 12 | India to 600
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Ground floor | Room 12 | India to 600
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