Model of a Stupa

Place of OriginSwat Valley, (north of Peshawar), India

Date3rd century

Dimensions7 1/4 × 2 1/2 × 2 in. (18.4 × 6.4 × 5.1 cm)

MediumGreen schist

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott

Object number

2006.144D

Not on View

DescriptionFigure, back left

Published ReferencesJ. Sherrier, "An Important Relic Stupa with Four Freestanding Figures," South Asian Archaeology, 1984, pp.254-256.

3rd century

3rd century

3rd century, possibly early 4th century

3rd Century

2nd - 3rd centuries

2500-2000 BCE

Shunga Dynasty (185-75 BCE)

Ch’ing Dynasty (1644-1912) 19th century

Hiroshi Yoshida

1932

about 300 BCE

Sixth to early seventh century

1st-2nd century CE

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