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# Block

Architectural block containing a woman, presumably a yakṣī, rising out of acanthus leaves. A female figure, framed in a deep architectural block, wearing a sleeved high-girt tunic with a scarf, emerges looking to her left out of acanthus leaves and holding a large flower by its stalk in her right hand.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 100–299 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1961-0519-8](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1961-0519-8) · Pramāṇa
