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The female donors of Haḍḍa
Alongside the Buddhas and the monks, the monasteries of Haḍḍa preserved the faces of the laypeople who sustained them. This tour gathers nineteen female or youthful donor heads: pearl diadems, spiral-wound turbans, chignons bound with ribbons, idealised smiling faces. Several remain of uncertain identification, between donor, deity or genie.
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Female Donor
Tapa Kalān · Stucco
A particularly refined coiffure: a diadem of pearls adorns the forehead.
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Head of female or male Donor
Chakhil-i Ghoundi · Stucco
A diadem with a central pearl and a circular ornament set with cabochons; a female or young male donor.
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Head of Female Donor
Chakhil-i Ghoundi · Stucco
Her diadem of pearls and jewels is adorned with a shell or a small horn.
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Head of female Donor
Bāgh Gaï · Stucco
The head is girded with two bands, stylised curls framing the forehead.
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Head of female Donor
Tapa-i Kafarihā · Stucco
A turban wound on three levels forms a kind of spiralling chignon.
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Head of Female Donor or Secondary Deity
Tapa Kalān · Stucco
The turban forms two spirals before falling as a veil behind the nape; donor or deity.
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Head of female Donor
Tapa Kalān · Stucco
The turban is wound around the forehead, then twisted around a loop-shaped panel.
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Head of female Donor
Haḍḍa, lost location · Stucco
The hair, smoothed on either side of a middle parting, is gathered in a chignon bound with a ribbon.
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Head of female Donor
Tapa Kalān · Stucco
An original coiffure: the curly hair is partly gathered in a chignon on top of the head.
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Head of female Donor
Tapa-i Kafarihā · Stucco
A roll of curls frames the youthful, idealised, smiling face.
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Head of female Donor
Tapa-i Kafarihā · Stucco
The features of this smiling donor bear the mark of western art.
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Head of female Donor
Bāgh Gaï · Stucco
Long, slightly wavy hair; round cheeks and a faint smile.
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Head of a female donor
Tapa Kalān · Stucco
Long hair falls on either side of a middle parting, covering earrings.
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Head of female Donor
Chakhil-i Ghoundi · Stucco
Two furrows part the hair: she may have worn diadems or ornaments.
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Head of a young Donor / or female Donor
Tapa Kalān · Stucco
The two rolled ends of a ribbon loop fall over the forehead.
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Head of a young Donor / or female Donor
Chakhil-i Ghoundi · Stucco
Childlike features, the hair bound with a headband; a young male or female donor.
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Head of a young Donor / or female Donor
Bāgh Gaï · Stucco
The mouth sketches a pout; a young male or female donor.
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Head of a female donor, or deity
Bāgh Gaï · Stucco
A head of feminine aspect, perhaps a deity, a Bodhisattva, a donor, or Brahma judging by its companion figure.
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Head of a female donor or genius
Haḍḍa, lost location · Stucco
Donor or genie: the band carries a large central ornament representing a pearl.