Stair-riser

Unknown (Kushan)

Item type:

sculpture

Date of creation:

2nd-3rd century

Height:

18.9 cm  (7 7/16 in.)

Width:

47.6 cm  (18 3/4 in.)

Diameter:

5.1 cm  (2 in.)

Technique / Medium:

carved schist

Place of creation:

Gandhara (former nation/state/empire)

School:

Gandhara

Description

Stair-riser length showing dancers and musicians. From right to left are two women, each wearing a long tunic; the second holds a drinking bowl, raising one hand and facing a male dancer in a knee-length and girt tunic, trousers and shod feet; he joins his hands and raises one flexed leg to bring the knee to waist height. On his right are two women, both in a long tunic and a draped over-garment plunging across the legs, one perhaps playing a harp as on BM 1880.31 and the other the transverse flute. Beside the latter is a tree with abundant foliage and one drooping branch, and at the end a plain framing element slopes inwards at the side.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harp [3285]
Transverse flute [4093]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 2

RIdIM record id

5356