Overview
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Painted wooden panel.
Date
500 to 799
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Measurement
depth 3.1 centimetres, height 21.9 centimetres, width 14.1 centimetres
Material
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Description
Scope and content : D. II. 03. Painted wooden panel. Rough panel, uneven thickness, painted one side. Two seated figures, each holding an infant which appears to be swathed, and has a headband. Drapery contours and flesh contours in red. Eyes of all figures, hair of seated figures, headbands of infants black. Seated figures have haloes round heads. Painting badly defaced. Between the two figures, running transversely to top, paper on which three lines of thick upright Gupta characters can be traced. On top edge beginning of five lines in same characters. Paper with writing a subsequent addition, as it covers lower part of left figure. Perished and very soft. 8½" wide, 5⅝" high; thickness varies from 1⅝" to ¼". [AK]
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Historical information
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Find site identifier
DanU.
Stein site number
D.II.03
Find site description
Situated between the Khotan and Keriya rivers, and approximately 50 miles north of Domoko which is on the southern arm of the Silk Road.
Excavation history : Stein excavated here between 19 Dec. 1900 and 3 Jan. 1901 (see Stein 1907: 237-303).
Short description : Dandanuiliq: between the Khotan and Keriya rivers
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