12 On the Antiquities of the Peshawur District. [ No, 1, 
wur cantonment and the Khyber Pass. The statue, as it may be 
called, is 44 inches high, and 23 wide across the knees. 
The figure is considerably mutilated, the entire right side above 
the knee of the principal figure, and the heads of three of the small 
ones being wanting; but what makes the figure remarkable is the 
suggestion, which one is struck with on looking at it, of its being 
probably a portrait. Many other figures with precisely similar dress 
and ornaments have been found in most of the places where figures 
have been found at all; but all the others present a smooth hand- 
some face of great regularity of features, without much expression, 
as if the artists had only intended to produce some ideal or conven- 
tional head. The face of this figure, however, is far from being hand- 
some or regular; there is a sternness in its mouth and chin, and a 
certain fierceness in its prominent eyes ; the natural fall of the heavy 
moustache also contrasts strongly with the waxed little ornament of 
the upper lip found in the other figures of this kind. The whole 
head is covered by a richly wrought combination of | strings of pearls 
with variously shaped and sized representations of precious stones ; 
a lion’s head over a heavy pearl garland surmounts the left temple. 
The lobes of the ears are much elongated by heavy pearl earrings. 
One lock of hair is visible behind the right ear. A necklace, and 
another ornament falling over the left shoulder relieve the nude 
thorax. A thick festoon of flowers seems, from its large curve, to 
be hanging over both shoulders and down in front. The legs are 
covered by a dhoti, and an izdrband is visible in the middle. The 
bangled left hand (rudely worked) holds a heavy javelin to which a 
bell is tied. The left foot rests upon a footstool. 
The four small figures are enigmatical from being so much muti- 
lated. The figure sitting on the same couch with the king near his 
left knee is very coarse. It is quite nude, but has a fillet, a necklace 
and anklets: it leans forward, with its hands upon its breast. ‘The 
standing figure below is headless; its breast and shoulders are cover- 
ed with scale-armour: a short petticoat goes from the loins to the 
knees, and greaves cover the unmutilated legs; as there are no toes 
visible, the feet, in the intention of the artist, are represented as 
covered by shoes. The right hand bears a bunch of the same flowers 
of which the thick festoon is composed. The left hand carries some- 
thing indistinguishable. The upper figure on the right of the king 
is also nude; the lower covered by a dhoti kneels on its right knee. 
