Bas Relief

Frieze

29-68-3

From: Gandhara

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Object Number 29-68-3
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Gandhara
Date Made 2nd Century - 3rd Century
Section Asian
Materials Slate
Technique Bas Relief | Carved
Iconography Male | Human Figures
Description

Bas relief frieze. Micaceous slate. Two Atlantes figures; bearded figure at left sitting on ground with knees raised and hands on knees; smooth-faced figure at right sitting on ground, right knee raised and elbow resting on it with hand held up as if to support something, left hand on knee partly raised.

Height 15.2 cm
Length 29.2 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Spink & Son, 1922 and 1924

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