Women's Palace Guard
Haḍḍa, lost location - Historiated bas-relief
The relief fragment depicts a soldier standing next to a lit pyre in front of a wall. He is dressed in a short tunic, his sword is hanging from his belt and he is leaning on a turbaned spear.
Observation :This character could be Pançika-Kubera, commonly represented as the guardian of the Buddha and whose spear is one of the attributes.
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. XI, n°50
TISSOT Francine - 2006 - Catalogue of the National Museum of Afghanistan (1931 – 1985) - 367, K.p. Ha. 963.30.
QUAGLIOTTI Anna-Maria - 2005b - Les protecteurs du Bouddha : du Gandhara à l'Afghanistan - 272