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Room 12 | India 2500 BC-AD 600 gallery

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Relief fragment depicting Prince Siddhartha, the future Buddha, cutting his hair in renunciationfront

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Relief fragment depicting Prince Siddhartha, the future Buddha, cutting his hair in renunciation

  • 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.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › Gandhara (place of creation)
    Asia › Gandhara › Swat (probable place of creation)
    Date
    1st century AD (AD 1 - 100)
    Kushan Period (AD 50 - 600)
    Associated people
    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)
    Material index
    inorganic › stone › schist
    Technique index
    carved,
    formed › carved
    Object type index
    architecture › relief,
    religious/ritual equipment,
    sculpture › figure › figurine,
    sculpture › relief
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Purchased, 1997.
    Accession no.
    EA1997.246

  • 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

    • Ground floor | Room 12 | India to 600

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