Women's Palace Guard

Haḍḍa, lost location - Historiated bas-relief


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HADB N° : 455
Technique : Sculpture
Object Type : Historiated bas-relief
Material : Schist
Site : Haḍḍa
Museum : National Museum of Afghanistan
Museum Registration Number : MK85
Findspot : Haḍḍa, lost location
Dimensions : h = 16 cm, l = 6 cm
Traces of Polychromy : No
Type of Restoration : No restauration
Description :

This relief fragment depicts a turbaned woman decorated with a palmette or small medallion on her temple, leaning against a pilaster, probably one of the guards of the gynaeceum in the Sleep of the Women.


Observation :

The schist reliefs discovered by Barthoux between 1926 and 1928 are mostly from the vicinity of the Great Stūpa K1 of Tapa-i Kafarihā, the south-western part of the main stūpa B12 of Bāgh Gaï (around B13) and the Great Stūpa TK140 of Tapa Kalān.


Bibliographical References :

DAGENS Bruno - 1964 - Monuments préislamiques d’Afghanistan - pl. XIV, n°43

TISSOT Francine - 2006 - Catalogue of the National Museum of Afghanistan (1931 – 1985) - 366, K.p. Ha. 958.25

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