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The hair rises from a peaked ridge like a cap to a bulbous <i>ushnisha</i>. The hair is shown in horizontal waves between grooves. The  forehead descends to eyebrows defined by arching edges (the right one showing signs of damage), which descend onto the bridge of the nose. The long narrow eyes are depressions within the eyelids, the upper ones of which are particularly prominent slightly slanting downwards towards the nose.  The tip of the nose is damaged above a finely arced upper lip over a fuller lower one.  The right ear is damaged but the long left one has a lobe which splays gently away from the jaw line and neck.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"stucco","id":"AAT14966"}],"techniques":[{"text":"modelling","id":"AAT53130"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Modelled lime stucco","categories":[{"text":"Sculpture","id":"THES48896"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SSEA","id":"THES48598"},"images":["2019ME5812","2019ME5809","2019ME5810","2017JU2438"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"008","id":"THES373817"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Head","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Pakistan","id":"x30015"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"The sculpture was excavated in the Swat Valley at a site of monastic buildings and <i>stupas</i>at Abarchinar, a steeply terraced site on a hillside above the right bank of the Najigram river which flows into the Karakar river, a short way below Barikot where the latter flows into the Swat River. Barikot now is in the province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, but this area was formerly within the princely state of Swat at the time of this object's excavation."}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"2nd  century - 4th Century","earliest":"0100-01-01","latest":"0400-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"22","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"15","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"15.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Acquired from Evert Barger, Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Bristol and Philip Wright, V&A Museum, as part of the collection of finds excavated during their expedition to the Swat valley in 1938. 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