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Genius with flowers

HADB 472Inv. KM 62-3-1139Tapa Kalān
Tapa KalānFigureStuccoModelling
Figure in Stucco: Genius with flowers, Tapa Kalān, Hadda
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Tapa Kalān

Location

Tapa Kalān

Description

This secondary deity with childlike and feminine features, smiling and gentle, wears her hair long and loose, in the manner of a brahman. She is dressed in a thick cloak and holds up a flower which she is about to throw with her left hand.

Characteristics

Dimensions

H: 15cm

Technique

Modelling

Material

Stucco

Object type

Figure

Site

Tapa Kalān

Conservation location

National Museum of Afghanistan

Museum inventory No.

KM 62-3-1139

Traces of polychromy

No

Restoration

No restoration

Bibliographic References

TISSOT Francine

2006

P. 380, K.p. Ha. 1008.75.-Catalogue of the National Museum of Afghanistan (1931 – 1985)

MIYAJI null

1979

P. 212-The Silk Road Museums

ROWLAND Benjamin

1971

fig. 133-Art of Afghanistan. Objects from the Kabul Museum

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