Room 12 | India 2500 BC-AD 600 gallery
Explore the early development of Indian art, from the artefacts of the Indus Valley to the Hindu and Buddhist sculpture of north India and Gandhara.
Alexander the Great had led his army to the Indus River in 327 BC. A legacy of this brief invasion was the Greek kingdom of Bactria and the later Indo-Greek kingdoms in what are now Afghanistan and Pakistan. Hellenistic and Roman influences, brought by trading contacts, remained strong in these regions for several centuries, and local artists continued to interpret classical themes and styles.
Hip herm of Silenus or a satyr holding a cornucopia (EA1994.47)
Head of Medusa (EA1993.19)
Furniture fitting in the form of a maenad (EA1994.58)
Figure of the hero god Heracles with his club seated on a lion (EA1999.31)
Figure of a bull (EA1993.21)
Ring with bust figure holding a wine cup (EA1996.103)
Gold earrings with lapis lazuli, ivory, and quartz pendants (EA1995.162)
Gold earring (EA1996.88)
Sphinx-like figure from a terminal (EA1995.4)
Fragment of a roundel with female figure (EA1996.91)
Lid or palette with the drunken Heracles supported by two female attendants (EA1993.24)
Palette with Nereids, or sea nymphs, riding ketoi, or sea monsters (EA1996.82)
Roundel with a lady at her toilet (EA1997.24)
Roundel with the goddess Hariti (EA1997.202)
Bactrian Greek tax receipt (EA1994.79)
Rhyton in the form of a centaur (EA1963.28)
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