[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Physical](https://indike.org/pramana/inp) › [Artefacts](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact) › [The British Museum, London](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm) › Figure # Figure Head, perhaps of a deity or Bodhisattva, originally frontal. The long oval head is framed in prominent rows of dense spiral curls down both sides and below a thick diadem formed of oblong stones with shallow depressions perhaps for lost ornament. Above it the hair rises in vertical strands to the lost chignon. - **Kind:** artefact - **Date:** 300–499 CE - **Place:** Takṣaśilā (33.7500, 72.8000) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1989-0621-3](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1989-0621-3) · Pramāṇa