Buddhist Ghazni: Cornice
Inv. no. TS00945

IsMEO / IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan, 1968
Tapa Sardar, Upper Terrace
Under the lotus base of stupa 4
TS00945

Other images

Afts0373
Dep. CS 6303

Scroll
Red clay
Relief; scrolls obtained from mould
H: 5; L: 16 cm
Late period

Running scroll (fragment) between two plain fillets, with spirals (five 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. Partially blackened by accidental fire.

Ghazni, MAIA storehouse (2002)
Neg. no.: 7354/ 7; 9660/ 5
Digital photos: -
Drawings: Inv. No. 6303