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Girdharpurtila, Mathura: Capital of Indo-Persepolitan pillar, about 1st Century A.D. Mathura, Curzon Museum,

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dc.contributor.authorPhotographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
dc.coverage.spatialIndia (Mathura, Uttar Pradesh)
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-24T05:53:17Z
dc.date.available2019-05-24T05:53:17Z
dc.date.createdcirca 1970s
dc.date.updated2019-05-24T05:53:17Z
dc.descriptionA number of foreign elements have been borrowed for this capital which in form does not look like any we have seen earlier in Indian art and is not a direct copy of Iranian examples either, The typical Iranian-Persepolitan capital had a protome of bulls, human-headed bulls, lions, occasional horses, and there is evidence that griffins were tried but then discarded, Floral motifs were used in magnificently abstract forms and, at some points, closely resembled lotus flowers: even the inverted variety of the imperial Asokan columns from the Maurya Period, Parts of these elements are found in [the] present example, which does not make use of any foreign motif exactly as it originally appeared: the lions are not adorned, but do appear, floral motifs are indeed abstract and fairly similar to Persepolitan types, but are not unknown in Indian architecture, The disc-like abacus on top of which a larger sculptural group probably would have appeared is already traditional in Indian architecture,en_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 682-676en_AU
dc.identifier.otherIA-755en_AU
dc.identifier.otherIA-755
dc.identifier.other16
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/163444
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.subjectMathuraen_AU
dc.subjectArchitectural elementsen_AU
dc.subjectreliefsen_AU
dc.subjectstone sculptureen_AU
dc.subjectmounted transparency seten_AU
dc.titleGirdharpurtila, Mathura: Capital of Indo-Persepolitan pillar, about 1st Century A.D. Mathura, Curzon Museum,
dc.typeImage
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