Buddhist Ghazni: Cornice
Inv. no. TS01901
IsMEO / IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan, 1967
Tapa Sardar, Vihara 17
Front zone of the chapel, near TS 1094
TS01901

False niche (fragment of cornice)
Red clay; pink paint
Relief; rosettes obtained from mould 17m4
H: 13; L: 43 cm
Late period

Cornice (fragmentary) of false-niche decorated with a row of rosettes (six of them are preserved) with double corolla with five carinated petals (in each layer) between two plain fillets. Pink paint on the rosettes.
Related fragment: TS 1094.

Ghazni, MAIA storehouse (2002)
Neg. no.: 11022/
Digital photos: -
Drawings: -
Gerda Henkel Stiftung | Università degli Studi di Napoli “L'Orientale”