24. Discovery of a Greek Ornament. 
By Rat Mrirunsoy Roy CHowpHury, Bahadur, M.R.A.S. 
In July last I purchased a gold ornament measuring 
13” x 1” and weighing 125 grains from a Sindhi. The image 
was offered for sale to the authorities of the Indian Museum 
and those of the Archzological Survey of India, but was 
amined by the authorities of the Archzological Survey of 
India and of the Indian Museum and had been pronounced by 
them to be a specimen of pure Hellenic workmanship. 
The ornament represents an erect male figure, to the right 
of which stands a female one, facing the former on the left. 
The only garment of the male is a chlamys which hangs down 
from his shoulders and barely reaches the knees, the rest of the 
body is perfectly naked ; the hair of the figure is close cropped, 
with its right hand touching the chin of the female figure, while 
the left is placed round the latter’s neck, in the act of drawing 
it close. The female is dressed in a loose robe, which passing 
ping away, when out of modesty she had clutched it with her left 
hand. The front of the female, from the neck down to her knees, 
is entirely bare. Her hair is curly, parted in the middle and 
drawn up in a loose knot on the back. The figures are hollow 
and have been made from beaten gold. They are represented 
as if standing on a narrow iedge. The back is quite plain save 
for three mortise holes intended for pins or tennons, two of 
which are just below the head of each figure, while the remaining 
one is at the back of the ledge between the legs of the figures. 
These holes indicate that the image formed a part of a larger 
ornament or was attached to something to which it formed 
but a decorative part. We may compare the Bacchanalian 
scenes which have been found in the decorative friezes among 
the ruins of st#pas and sangharamas in the ancient provinces 
of Gandhara and Udyana represented by the modern Peshawar 
