Islamic Ghazni: Marble
Inv. no. KM.58.2.1
Screens
IsMEO / IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan, 1957
Ghazni area
Unknown
Ghazni area
Unknown
Screen
Marble
Bas-relief
44.5x64x8.5
First half 11th c.
Screen carved on both sides (type 8). Complete. Side A. Figurative scene: personnage dressed with "shalwar kamez" and long belt (of Turkish kind), riding a richly adorned horse and fighting against a lion rampant on his right. In the contour panel on top left is a leftbound jumping/running animal (a goat?). On the left of the horse are four palmette-like features, belonging to a tree who could have had a symmetrical development on the adjoining panel; a similar vegetal feature is set on the right part of the register. The face of the rider has been abraded. Side B. The running animals carved in the lower register are, from the right: a lion, a dog with turned head, a hare. One upper corner missing.
Current location: unknown
Inscription: Arabic, cursive, one line
Current location: unknown
Inscription: Arabic, cursive, one line
[...] كفاية وكمال وجمال وجلال [...]
"[...] sufficiency, perfection, beauty, elevation [...]" (Reading by R. Giunta)
Neg. no.: D187/15
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