Votive bowl

The ritual bowl may have been made for Buddhist use. It is in the form of an octagonal cup, supplied on the rim with eight small hemispherical oil-pans, and resting in the calyx of an 8-petalled lotus-flower. The lotus is upheld by elephants and cobras alternately arranged. (one of the elephants being broken).

Kind

artefact

Date

500–600 CE