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# Head of a Bodhisattva

A head of a Bodhisattva which is turned slightly to his right, but is broken off at the base of the neck. He wears a turban wound round the top of his head. It has a central tasselled cockade on top with a pair of additional tassels below above his forehead (the fringe of the right hand tassek is now missing).

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 300–500 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.im-172-1929](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.im-172-1929) · Pramāṇa
