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Artist name:

Gandhara art, Buddhist, N-W frontier province Pakistan



Artwork title:

Divinities and dancers


Description: Fragment of a stone relief (schist - alluvially deposited slate stone); male and female divinities and dancers; 4 figures. Bodhistattva (Buddha before Enlightenment) or Prince - possibly Jataka story (story of previous lives of the Buddha). See Historical notes

Artwork date(s): 2nd/3rd century AD
Artwork type: Eastern Collection
Medium: stone
Measurements: H:265
Accession number: 448

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