Room 32 | India 600-1900 gallery
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Dome of a reliquary in the form of a stupa
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Details
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- Date
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1st century AD (AD 1 - 100)
Kushan Period (AD 50 - 600)
- Material and technique
- grey schist
- Dimensions
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5.5 cm (height)
5.7 cm (diameter)
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- Credit line
- Purchased with the assistance of the Friends of the Ashmolean Museum, 1978.
- Accession no.
- EA1978.127.b
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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
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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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