The Buddhist Art of Gandhara: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c9.6
The Buddhist Art of Gandhāra: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c9.6
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The next tray (fig. 15) exhibits a fish-tailed hippocamp, with rider seated astride, and palmette rays in the exergue. Here, again, the rider is distinguished by the wig-like treatment of the hair and wide-open, prominent eyes. Found in Stratum 2, and referable to the Late Śaka period.