Tile Relief with Antelope and Lion
5th century
Maker Unknown
Asian Art
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Tiles
- Formatted Medium
- Terracotta
- Medium
- terracotta
- Locations
- Place made: Kashmir, India
- Period
- Gupta Period (possibly)
- Dimensions
- 9 7/8 x 14 15/16 x 1 7/8in. (25.1 x 37.9 x 4.8cm) mount: 15 × 11 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (38.1 × 29.8 × 6.4 cm)
- Inscribed
- The incised marks at the base may be numerals in Kharoshti script, which reads from right to left. If that is the case then this reads 41. Because Kharoshti numbers are like Roman numerals but without the "less one" feature, that would possibly make this read as 5 (4+1)
- Departments
- Asian Art
- Accession Number
- 1998.86.2
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Bertram H. Schaffner
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
- Museum Location
- Asian Galleries, Arts of South Asia, 2nd floor
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