Southern Tajikistan in Kushana period - HEAD OF BUDDHA.

Marl limestone. 12 x 7. Sculpture of three-fourths, near-wall (back) side is not completed. The face side of sculpture is little polished, in some places were preserved the tracks of the sharp cutting tool, with the aid of which its initial working was accomplished. Hair-do is isolated from the forehead by small ledge and is depicted as four rows of the vertical ovals, which are converged in forehead. Ushnisha is raised above the hair-do to 1,2 cm, its diameters 4 cm. Region of Kolkhozabad. 1C. „L„y„„.: „_„S ‡‚ 248.

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