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Frieze fragment depicting putti holding up a garland

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  • Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum by J. C. Harle and Andrew Topsfield

    Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum

    To what extent Graeco-Roman motifs and architectural ornaments were borrowed in Gandhara is well illustrated by this frieze of putti holding up a garland, the principal decoration of hundreds of Roman sarcophagi. Close inspection will show that the headdress (turbans) of the putti and their heavy anklets are of Indian inspiration, as well as the flower that takes the place of the winged putto between the bird-figures themselves a reversion to western classical types, more eagle than haṃsa (goose).

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