The Buddhist Art of Gandhara: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c9.8

c9.8

Fig. 17 is also of steatite and of approximately the same date as the foregoing. In the upper register is a sea-monster ridden by a half-draped female holding a baby in her left arm. In exergue, acanthus leaf in low relief. On the back, Kharoṣṭhī inscription *Mamjuminasa*. The treatment of the female rider, half-clad and with bared back and prominent buttocks, closely resembles that of the preceding example, though the workmanship is coarser.