Islamic Ghazni: Marble
Inv. no. PF0003

Dado panels
IsMEO / IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan, 1957
Ghazni area
Ziyara of Pir-i Falizvan (reused)
PF0003

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PF0003_neg 7290-3

Dado panel
Marble
Bas-relief
30x84.2
11th-12th c.

Dado with interlaced arches (type 11b). The decoration is composed of one section with a sequence of interlaced trilobated arches. They are set against a vegetal pattern of interlaced half-palmettes and fleur-de-lis; each trilobated arch includes two superimposed fleur-de-lis in a tree-like vegetal composition. Two plain stripes frame the decorated field. Upper left and right corners missing. This type might have been used as an architectural dado or as a tomb paneling.

Current location: Ghazni warehouse
Neg. no.: 7290/3; 4686/7, 8
Digital photos: G. Pastori, 2002
Drawings: –