Women's Palace Guard

This fragmentary relief represents two sleeping women. One is leaning on a spear or a very slender column, perhaps a Yavanī, one of the guards of the gynaecaeum; the other, probably a musician, is dozing on her drum. These figures appear in the scene of the Great Departure, as Siddhārtha leaves his wife in the middle of the sleeping palace.

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.