The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.174

c9.174

This photograph, kindly supplied by Major van Erp, compares advantageously with WILSEN’S drawing, lithographed on plate CCCLVI, I, of the great album which accompanies the volume of LEEMANS, Boro-Boudour dans l’île de Java. The original is situated to the left of the staircase of the eastern façade, at the height of what LEEMANS calls the fifth gallery, which, since the discovery of the original base of the fifth gallery, we know to be the fourth; it is, moreover, the last polygonal sculptured gallery before the three circular pseudo-terraces of the summit (cf. our pl. XXXII and LEEMANS, ibid., pp. 291 sqq. and pll. CCCLVI-CCCLXXXVIII, especially the first and the last, which form pendants to one another on each side of the eastern entrance).