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# Seated musician

This small carving is of a seated woman turning to the left. She is holding a stringed instrument, like a zither, on her lap which she plucks with her left hand. Her three-quarter profile shows a left ear with a large hooped earring. She wears a necklace arm bands and six bangles on her wrists.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 400–600 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-505-1950](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-505-1950) · Pramāṇa
