Buddhist Ghazni: Wall painting
Inv. no. TS01800
IsMEO / IsIAO Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan, 1970
Tapa Sardar, Room 52
MNAOR 3807 TS 1800

Buddha;Bodhisattva
Clay; paint: black, blue, brown, red, white
Tempera
H: 54,5; L: 196 cm
Late period

Wall painting (fragmentary) in two registers separated by straight festoon. Upper register with row of beaded medallions, with lotus flowers in the resulting spaces. Lower register with row of alternating Buddha and bodhisattva figures (two of them respectively are preserved) under canopies (with pendent elements), looking at each other, with nimbus and body-halo. Traces of black, blue, brown, red and white paint.
Related fragment: TS 1790.

Ghazni, MAIA storehouse


Neg. no.: 10454/ 1-8
Digital photos: -
Drawings: -
Gerda Henkel Stiftung | Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”