Head of the Buddha

VII–VIII века · Скульптура · 22 × 14,5 см

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Музей Виктории и Альберта

Лондон, Великобритания

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Проверено: 16 дней назад
Этот статус с: 25 сент. 2026 г.
Источник: Музей

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When the V&A acquired this sculpture there was a small paper label stuck on the back of the head. It bore the following history in faded ink: ‘Found embedded in red clay and dug out during excavations for Sultangange Railway, Bengal, 1862’.

This head of the Buddha displays a number of conventional auspicious marks (‘laksanas’). These include the close-curled hair represented in spirals (‘snail-shell’ type), a prominent skull protruberance (‘ushnisha’), a forehead mark (‘urna’) indicated as a curl of hair, and distended ear lobes. An examination of the back reveals that the head once had a nimbus (‘prabha’) and most probably formed part of standing Buddha figure.

Experts are now confident that the sculpture came from Sultanganj, once the site of a major Buddhist monastery and stupa in the early Pala period (about 760-1142 AD). The style of this sculpture belongs to a Sarnath school of the post-Gupta period (320-about 540 AD). However, it already exhibits the highly accomplished skills of the Bihari sculptors who worked the fine-grained shale stone characteristic of sites south of the Ganges. It may be dated to the early Pala period.

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