Buddhist Ghazni: Cornice
Inv. no. TS00273
IsMEO / IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan
Tapa Sardar
Unstratified
TS00273

Scroll
Brown clay
Relief; scrolls obtained from mould
H: 5,5; L: 14 cm
Late period (?)

Curvilinear cornice decorated with running scroll between two plain fillets, with spirals (three of them are preserved) consisting of round plaques decorated with alternating clockwise and anti-clockwise twisted stem ending into a three-lobed flower or leaf.

Ghazni, MAIA storehouse (2003)
Neg. no.: -
Digital photos: MAIA 2002
Drawings: -
Gerda Henkel Stiftung | Università degli Studi di Napoli “L'Orientale”