Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c16.26

c16.26

A notable example in the group of Kosam terracottas is the female figure, now in the Indian Institute, Oxford.² Its headgear is distinguished by two prominent side-rolls of a turban flanking a central boss stamped with floral design and a band of sacred symbols, probably to mark the divine character of the figure. [Fig. 232]. Similar female figures forming part of Mithuna plaques of early period (200-100 B. C.) with three sacred symbols, viz. an arrowhead, a banner and a goad stuck on one side of the head, have been found at Ahichchhatrā also.³ [Fig. 233].