Women's Palace Guard
Photo by Francine Tissot
Location
Haḍḍa, lost location
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.
Observations
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.
Characteristics
Dimensions
H: 16cm × L: 6cm
Technique
Sculpture
Material
Schist
Object type
Historiated bas-relief
Site
Haḍḍa, lost location
Conservation location
National Museum of Afghanistan
Museum inventory No.
MK85
Traces of polychromy
No
Restoration
No restoration
Dimensions
H: 16cm × L: 6cm
Technique
Sculpture
Material
Schist
Object type
Historiated bas-relief
Site
Haḍḍa, lost location
Conservation location
National Museum of Afghanistan
Museum inventory No.
MK85
Traces of polychromy
No
Restoration
No restoration
Bibliographic References
Part of the themed route