Wima Kadphises: Dated 6th year of Kanishka's reign, A.D. 134 or 150
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Rowland, Benjamin
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Represents Kanishka's predecessor sitting on a lion-throne, wearing the short tunic and heavy felt boots of Kushana kings, Only the breadth of shoulders and fullness of form suggest a continuation of the Indian figure style, The image has a massiveness and crudity immediately suggestive of fragmentary Parthian portrait-statues, The carving of the ornamental border of the cloth draped over the throne reveals an almost exact copy of the designs of woven silks from Palmyra,
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Mathura, Kushana portraits, stone sculpture, book scan
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Basham Collection
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1953
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This image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University.
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