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The hair is modelled with curly quiffs of hair round the hairline, rising in scalloped ridges up to a flattened top knot from which descends long twisting ringlets. The hair is bound  with cords above the curly fringe on the forehead. This hairstyle may distinguish the figure as that of the Buddha of the Future, Maitreya.  The arching eyebrows are modelled as arching edges above heavily lidded eyes which are shown as long narrow depressions between well-defined lids.  The straight nose has rounded nostrils above a curving upper lip over a fuller lower one.","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":[{"text":"gandharan","id":"AAT18889"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"SSEA","id":"THES48598"},"images":["2019ME5772","2019ME5776","2017JU2438"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"007","id":"THES373816"},"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":"0399-12-31"},"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":"19","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. This object was numbered 131 in Barger's lists.   It is one of eleven stucco heads found lying in the debris surrounding the foot of <i>Stupa</i> B.  The style of modelling and size of the head closely resembles that of IM.74-1939. This head bears similarities with one in the British Museum, OA.1972.5-15.1 ( See V. Zwalf, <u>A cata1ogue of the Gandharan Sculpture in</u> <u>the British Museum</u>, British Museum Press, 1996, 2 vols. 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