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DOI Artikel:Sieradzki, Wojciech: Yaksha or not Yaksha?
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18860#0141
1.1 Fragment of a figure of a monkey, inv. no. 149092 MN, Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe (phot, by
the author)
The image is 0,083 m high, 0,051 m wide at the bottom, 0,050 m wide in shoulders. The relic
was hand-made of light-red clay. One can see traces of putting the clay together with hands
on the inner side of the legs. In the hollows of the image there have preserved some remains of
a white paint.
At present, ten images can be identified as analogies to the Warsaw examples. Basing on
formal criteria one can divide them into two groups.
The first one consists of five unpublished pieces from Sari Dheri (one of the hills of the ancient
town of Charsada, the ruins of which are some distance northward from Peshawar) and at present
to be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London2.
Four of them :
1. exc. inv. No. IM-184-1937, height 0,026 m (fig. 3)
2. exc. inv. No. IS-64A-1951, height 0,044 m (fig. 4)
3. exc. inv. No. IM-186-1937, height 0,013 m (fig. 5)
4. exc. inv. No. IM-185-1937, height 0,026 m (fig. 6)
are mokeys' heads with fragments of neck preserved.
2. I owe the right to publish them to Mr J. Irwin, Keeper of the Indian Section in the Vietoiu and Alhert Museum. The
catalogue information has been taken from the inventory of the Indian Section and from major D. II. Gordon's notes,
which after the author's death were laid in the Victoria and Alhert Museum.
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the author)
The image is 0,083 m high, 0,051 m wide at the bottom, 0,050 m wide in shoulders. The relic
was hand-made of light-red clay. One can see traces of putting the clay together with hands
on the inner side of the legs. In the hollows of the image there have preserved some remains of
a white paint.
At present, ten images can be identified as analogies to the Warsaw examples. Basing on
formal criteria one can divide them into two groups.
The first one consists of five unpublished pieces from Sari Dheri (one of the hills of the ancient
town of Charsada, the ruins of which are some distance northward from Peshawar) and at present
to be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London2.
Four of them :
1. exc. inv. No. IM-184-1937, height 0,026 m (fig. 3)
2. exc. inv. No. IS-64A-1951, height 0,044 m (fig. 4)
3. exc. inv. No. IM-186-1937, height 0,013 m (fig. 5)
4. exc. inv. No. IM-185-1937, height 0,026 m (fig. 6)
are mokeys' heads with fragments of neck preserved.
2. I owe the right to publish them to Mr J. Irwin, Keeper of the Indian Section in the Vietoiu and Alhert Museum. The
catalogue information has been taken from the inventory of the Indian Section and from major D. II. Gordon's notes,
which after the author's death were laid in the Victoria and Alhert Museum.
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