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banner, painting

1919,0101,0.121

white outline and colours on silk

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Title

Suryaprabha, Bodhisattva of the Sun.

Date

700 to 799

Find site

Dunhuang Mogao

Measurement

height 213 centimetres, width 25.5 centimetres

Language / script

Chinese (script) Chinese (lang.)

Subject

Buddhism

Description

Scope and content : Ch. 00303. Silk banner with Chin. inscr.; complete except for side streamers, and made throughout of indigo blue silk. In place of bottom streamers it has undivided length of silk, to which weighting-board is attached in usual fashion. Condition good.

Institution

British Museum

Provenance

Stein 1906-8

Find site identifier

DHMG.

Stein site number

Ch.00303

Find site description

Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang

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