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This relief still exhibits the tenons used to secure it in its original architectural setting.\n\n","briefDescription":"Bracket relief panel depicting a winged Triton, schist, 2nd-3rd century, Gandhara.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"H. Hargreaves,  Handbook to Sculptures in Peshawar Museum, 1930, Pl. 8 (a)\r\nE. Esperandieu,  Recueil General de bas-reliefs, statues et bustes de la Gaule romaine, Paris 1916, Vol.6, p. 421 for Western parallels.\r\nW.Zwalf, The Shrines of Gandhara 1979, pl.28."},{"reference":{"text":"The Crossroads of Asia : transformation in image and symbol in the art of ancient Afghanistan and Pakistan / edited by Elizabeth Errington and Joe Cribb with Maggie Claringbull. 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