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# Figure

Head of a deity or Bodhisattva, perhaps originally frontal. The headdress may have consisted of a central gem or knot, now lost, over the forehead, and bands radiating, two on each side, horizontally and slanting upwards to round the lost chignon.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 300–499 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1945-0417-21](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1945-0417-21) · Pramāṇa
