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Palette with Nereids, or sea nymphs, riding ketoi, or sea monsters
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
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1st century AD (AD 1 - 100)
Kushan Period (AD 50 - 600)
- Material and technique
- schist
- Dimensions
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1.8 cm (height)
13.7 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 1996.
- Accession no.
- EA1996.82
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Further reading
Topsfield, Andrew, ‘Indian Art at the Ashmolean Museum’, Oriental Art, 43/4, (Winter 1997-1998), p. 28, illus. p. 24 fig. 3
Topsfield, Andrew, ‘Museum Acquisitions and Notes’, ed. Carol Altman Bromberg and Prods Oktor Skjærvø, Bulletin of the Asia Institute, 10, (1998), fig. 5
Pantermalēs, Dēmētrios, Alexandros kai Anatole [=Alexander and the East] (Thessaloniki: Organismos Politistikes Proteuousas tes Europes, 1997), no. 154
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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