[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Physical](https://indike.org/pramana/inp) › [Artefacts](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact) › [Victoria and Albert Museum, London](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam) › Reliquary # Reliquary The casket, of lathe-turned mottled steatite, has a globular body in two halves resting on circular disc foot and surmounted by a four-tiered knob, perhaps intended to suggest a four-tiered honorific umbrella (chattra). It was found to contain one piece of calcined bone. - **Kind:** artefact - **Date:** 205–196 BCE --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.im-221a-1921](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.im-221a-1921) · Pramāṇa