| Identification | |
| Name of the Museum /Institution
संग्रहालय/संस्था का नाम |
Allahabad Museum, Allahabad |
| Reference Number / संदर्भ संख्या | NM-ALH-UP-301973 |
| Title/ Name of Object वस्तु का शीर्षक/नाम |
Fragment of the inner face of the coping with Jataka Scenes |
| Type of Object / वस्तु की किस्म | Sculpture - प्रतिमा |
| Dynasty /वंश | Sunga - शुंग |
| Period / तारीख/युग | |
| Style / शैली | |
| Provenance / उद्गम/क्षेत्र | Bharhut, Satna District |
| Material / सामग्री | Sandstone - बलुआ पत्थर |
| Sub Material / उप.सामग्री | |
| Location at the Museum / संग्रहालय में कहा पर अवस्थित है। | Display |
| State/UT राज्य/संघ राज्य क्षेत्र |
Uttar Pradesh |
| Measurement/Weight माप/वजन |
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| Length(cm) / लंबाई | |
| Width(cm) / चौड़ाई | |
| Height(cm) / ऊंचाई | |
| Weight(gm) / भार | |
| Diameter(cm) /व्यास | |
| Thickness(cm)/मोटाई | |
| Depth(cm) /गहराई | 91.5 x 49.5 x 22 cm |
| Description / विवरण | |
| Description / विवरण | Between the usual upper and lower borders of stepped pyramids and pendant bells are reliefs which fill the four compartments formed by the undulating kalpavalli. Beginning from the left, we first see a calyx yielding a cloth, probably a lower garment; and two men engaged in conversation within a courtyard formed by three buildings, the structure to the right having three finials. The figure on the left has the right hand raised in the attitude of exposition while the left hand holds an animal. He is conversing with the figure on the right, who listens attentively. Another animal can be seen perched on the roof of the house in the foreground. This roof is gabled, consisting of sloping rafters thatched with grass; the other two roofs are vaulted and supported lengthwise by wooden beams, the ends of which are visible. A circular earring decorated with grooved concentric circles is used as a space filler just above the building on the right. The adjoining panel shows the creeper emitting a four-stranded necklace, circular bangles, and a dancer’s anklet (?) fringed with bells. The panel on the far right contains a hut, octagonal in plan, and provided with a domical roof having a finial made of lashed sticks. Above the two standing figures in conversation is inscribed gajajataka saso, and above the domed hut can be discerned the word jatake; translated by Luders as “the Jataka of the elephant. The hare.., in the Jataka (?)". (For a discussion of the problems raised by the peculiar distribution and wording of the inscription see Luders, Bharhut Inscriptions, pp. 121-122.) |
| Identification Marks / पहचान चिन्ह | |
| Identification Mark Images / पहचान चिन्ह का छायाचित्र | |
| Condition / वस्तु की अवस्था | |
| Condition Description / स्थिति का विवरण | |
| Source | |
| From where acquired / अधिग्रहण का स्थान | |
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