Figure of Skanda

Standing and haloed Skanda-Kārttikeya. The frontal figure wears a sleeved tunic under a cross-hatched shirt, which may be quilted, and short sleeves and a skirt of pendent strips or of plates, of metal or leather while, at the bottom, perhaps to prevent discomfort from chafing, a thick edge of the foundation fabric …

Kind

artefact

Date

100–299 CE

Place

Kafirkot (32.2397, 71.1534)