The Development of Hindu Iconography c12.2.4

c12.2.4

The head-dresses of the figures in these two seals (Nos. 222 and 235) are very simliar, ‘ but surmounted by a plant motif with three branches in the one case and only a single branch on the other.’ Mackay remarks about this head-dress, ‘The larger figure on seal 420 lacks this spray of foliage, but has instead the fan-shaped ornament commonly associated with the pottery female figurines.’¹