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To B. Griffiths, Esquire, 

 Offg. Secy. Local Committee of Public Instruction, Benares. 



Benares, 21st January, 1856. 

 Sir, — At the request of the Commissioner of the Division, I beg 

 the favor of your receiving charge of the articles enumerated in the 

 accompanying list. They have been dug, under the superintendence 

 of Professor Hall, from the ruins of Sarnath. 



I have, &c. 

 (Sd.) D. Butter. 

 List of articles dug up at Sarnath, the ancient Buddhist holy 

 ground near Benares, under the superintendence of Professor E. E. 

 Hall, and left by him, on his departure for Ajmere in June, 1855, 

 under my charge. 



1. A disk of sandstone ; 37 inches in diameter ; sharp at the 

 edge ; convex on one face ; slightly concave on the other, which has 

 a raised ring 1^ inch high round its centre, 9^ inches in exterior 

 and 4 inches in interior diameter, of rounded section : central thick- 

 ness of the disk 1 \ inch : a portion (chord 19 inches) of the edge is 

 broken oft*. [Fixed as an umbrella over statues of Buddha.] 



2. A nether hand millstone ; diameter 11 inches, sandstone. 



3. A ditto, broken into two pieces, sandstone. 



4. An upper millstone of unusual size and weight ; height 6 

 inches ; diameter 11 inches ; sandstone. 



5. A female head and throat, 3^ inches high, broken off from a 

 statuette, sandstone, of very marked character ; hair parted in 

 short bandeaux in the centre, ending in a series of short curls, with 

 a short club of hair thrown back from the top of the head ; high 

 pencilled eyebrows ; half closed eyelids ; forehead and nose in one 

 straight line ; facial angle about 80° ; smiling expression of mouth ; 

 coloured part of the under lip marked in an exaggerated degree, 

 almost like a protruded tongue ; profile very Egyptiau ; throat 

 marked with two folds ; long earrings. 



6. A torso ; sandstone ; 8 inches high ; alto-relievo from throat 

 to knee; proportions hermaphrodite; slightly draped; right hip 

 thrown forward. 



7. Alto-relievo fragment ; sandstone ; 5 inches long ; a female 

 right hand, holding a custard-apple ; armlet bordered above with 



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