Relic casket from the Stupa at Jualian, Stucco, Taxila, Museum

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dc.contributor.authorPhotographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
dc.coverage.spatialIndia (Jaulian, near Taxila, Pakistan)en_AU
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-24T05:42:14Z
dc.date.available2019-05-24T05:42:14Z
dc.date.createdcirca 1970sen_AU
dc.date.updated2019-05-24T05:42:14Z
dc.descriptionThe worship of relics is an old tradition in India, Even the first stupas were actually reliquary shrines, for the bones of ancestors were interred beneath them and, later, relics of the Buddhas, The specific decoration for any reliquary vessel called for imagery of Buddhist origin, hence, the caskets assumed a variety of shapes related to Buddhist iconography, This one has taken the image of the Bodhi tree of Enlightenment though it has been given abstract forms to accomplish this, the 'tree' looks like a wand of bells set into a standen_AU
dc.format.extent35mmen_AU
dc.format.mediummounted transparencyen_AU
dc.format.mediumb&wen_AU
dc.format.mediumsepiaen_AU
dc.format.mimetypeimage/tiffen_AU
dc.identifierANUA 682-532en_AU
dc.identifier.otherIA-564en_AU
dc.identifier.otherIA-564
dc.identifier.other9
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/163302
dc.language.isoen_AU
dc.provenanceDigitised by the Australian National University in 2019
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBasham Collection
dc.rights.licenseThis image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University.
dc.subjectGandharaen_AU
dc.subjectArchaeology & Architectureen_AU
dc.subjectTaxilaen_AU
dc.subjectstone sculptureen_AU
dc.subjectmounted transparency seten_AU
dc.titleRelic casket from the Stupa at Jualian, Stucco, Taxila, Museum
dc.typeImage
dspace.entity.typeANUArchivesItem
local.contributor.authoremailbutlin.archives@anu.edu.au
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