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The projecting base with a half round moulding supports the carved relief of a row of amorini supporting a garland set within a carved frame  consisting of a plain border with saw tooth ornamentation running along the top and over two end panels carved with a zig-zag pattern enclosing half rosettes.\n\nThe figures are carved set back within the plane of the borders. Five of the chubby figures, two of which appear to be naked, hold up an undulating garland while four further ones are shown behind in its dipping loops. They are wearing loosely twisted turbans with topknots. and anklets above their feet. All are playing musical instruments; variously from the left a rattle worked with a foot, the pipes of Pan, a trumpet-like instrument, a tambourine, a flute, two indeterminate instruments, cymbals and a drum.\n\nThe fat garland is made up of pointed leaves bound with a ribbon, but the second loop from the right is carved with beaded ridges and criss-crossed segments.  Three mango-like fruits are draped over two of the dipping loops alternating with tassels and splayed-out drapery. Both ends of the garland terminate in what resembles the hind legs of a quadruped.\n\n","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"schist","id":"AAT11626"}],"techniques":[{"text":"carving","id":"AAT53149"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Carved grey schist","categories":[{"text":"Sculpture","id":"THES48896"},{"text":"Architectural fittings","id":"THES48994"},{"text":"Buddhism","id":"THES48984"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"SSEA","id":"THES48598"},"images":["2013GV4075","2017JU2323","2018KY3884"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES396742"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES396742"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"panels (surface components)","id":"AAT69079"}],[{"text":"panels (surface components)","id":"AAT69079"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Swat District","id":"x35776"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"Found by Evert and Barger at Chinabara, a rocky hill site  beyond the head of the valley of the Kandak river which flows into the right side of the Swat river near Barikot, now in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, but then in the  princely state of Swat.  This relief was found among other sculptures lying near the foundation walls of two terraces which had been artificially levelled on a grassy plateau, some two miles east of the excavated site at Amluk."}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"late 3rd century","earliest":"0250-01-01","latest":"0300-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Presented by Barger and Wright","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"0.155","unit":"m","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Length","value":"0.78","unit":"m","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 from Swat excavated during their expedition to the Swat valley in 1938. It is described as a riser, as it conforms  to the types of risers found at Jamalgarhi, now in the British Museum, but no evidence of steps was discovered during the excavation.\n\n","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Relief panel, possibly a step riser, with amorini bearing garlands, grey schist, late 3rd Century AD, Swat valley.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Barger, E. and Wright, P., ‘Excavations in Swat and Explorations in the Oxus Territories of Afghanistan, a detailed report of the 1938 expedition’, <u>Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of India</u>, vol. 64, Calcutta, 1941, No 170.p.23. pl.VII,fig. 3.\n"},{"reference":{"text":"Ackermann, Hans Christoph. <u>Narrative Stone Reliefs from Gandhara in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Catalogue and Attempt at a Stylistic History.</u> Reports and Memoirs. Director of the Series Giuseppe Tucci. Volume XVII. 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