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Fragmentary standing figure
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Details
- Date
- 1st - 4th century AD (AD 1 - 400)
- Material and technique
- bronze, hollow cast
- Dimensions
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11.8 x 4.6 x 3.6 cm (height x width x depth)
with stand 16 x 7.5 x 4.3 cm (height x width x depth)
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processed material › metal › alloy › copper alloy › bronze
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- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- EAOS.13.a
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Further reading
Harle, J. C., and Andrew Topsfield, Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1987), no. 23 on p. 18, illus. p. 18
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Indian Art in the Ashmolean Museum
This impressive though fragmentary little bronze, found in Gandhara but purely Graeco-Roman in style, was clearly an import. Such foreign works of art, dating from 1st to 4th centuries A.D. have been found in considerable numbers in Indian and Pakistan, from the north-west to the northern Deccan, as well as in Afghanistan. Many of them can be traced to Alexandria. It is more difficult to determine the place of origin of this bronze, for the costume, marked by tassels at the back hanging down from an upper garment, is neither Greek, Roman nor Indian. It seems most likely to have been made in some Hellenistic milieu of Western Asia.
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