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Plaque depicting a couple making love (mithuna)
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › east India (place of creation)Asia › India › east India › West Bengal › Chandraketugarh (probable place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd - 1st century BC (200 - 1 BC)
- Material and technique
- ivory
- Dimensions
- 4.1 x 3.8 x 0.7 cm max. (height x width x depth)
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organic › animal › tooth › mammal tooth › ivory
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Alexander Goetz, 1998.
- Accession no.
- EA1998.39
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Further reading
Ramsey, C. Bronk, P. B. Pettitt, R. E. M. Hedges, and G. W. L. Hodgins, ‘Ivory Plaque’, Archaeometry, 41/1, (1999), p. 203
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 24 May 2006-23 December 2008, Treasures: Antiquities, Eastern Art, Coins, and Casts: Exhibition Guide, Rune Frederiksen, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2006), no. 38 on p. 17, illus. p. 17 fig. 38
Ahuja, Naman, ‘Early Indian Art at the Ashmolean Museum - Catalogue in progress’, 2016, no. 147
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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