Model of a Stupa

Place of OriginIndia, Swat Valley (north of Peshawar)

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

2nd - 3rd centuries

3rd century, possibly early 4th century

2500-2000 BCE

Shunga Dynasty (185-75 BCE)

Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE)

Hiroshi Yoshida

1932

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

11th–12th Dynasties (2130–1802 BCE)

about 300 BCE

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