512 Notice of two heads found in the Punjab. [No. 6. 



eyelids heavy ; the eyes but little open, and sloping upwards towards 

 the ears ; the nose flat and thick ; the mouth large with thick flat 

 lips ; the ears very large and flat, with the lobes drawn down to a 

 hideous extent : the expression of the face stolid and heavy : the 

 material of which this head is composed is a white stucco of a very 

 friable nature ; the workmanship is coarse, and the modelling of the 

 head incorrect. 



Plate XX., again is of a superior character in every respect ; the eyes 

 open and intelligent ; the nose well formed ; and the nostrils open 

 and well articulated ; the upper lip short ; the lips well and sharply 

 defined ; and the mouth bearing a pleasing and intellectual expres- 

 sion ; the head too is correctly modelled, shewing some knowledge of 

 the art of sculpture ; the ears are concealed by the full curls of the 

 hair, which hangs loosely on each side of the head, the curls being 

 well and sharply executed ; on the head is a cap or fillet ; the two 

 sides being apparently connected by the principal band which goes 

 round over the forehead ; but the upper part open, allowing the hair 

 to appear and fall over the band just above the forehead ; the sides 

 of the cap are divided into lozenge-shaped projections from the sur- 

 faces representing some kind of ornament ; where these sides join the 

 band or fillet, I think some thing has been broken off ; the counte- 

 nance is handsome and pleasing in its expression, either in profile, or 

 in full face ; — the material is a dark stucco or cement, not so easily 

 broken as that of Plate XIX., and of better and finer ingredients ; in- 

 deed the sharpness of the work is surprizing considering its antiquity. 



I cannot conjecture without more data what or whom this head 

 No. 2, is designed to represent .; but it is evidently not a Hindu 

 head j and on comparing it with the heads on the early Bactrian 

 coins, there appears to be a great resemblance in general character ; 

 sufficient to induce me to think it belongs to that period. The expres- 

 sion of the face is somewhat of a Greek cast, but it is not a pure 

 Greek countenance ; if the spot on which it was found is known, I 

 should think that other portions of the building it has belonged to 

 might be discovered ; it is not probable that a single figure should 

 be made of such weak materials ; and from the breakage at the top 

 and back of the head I think it must have been attached to a wall of 

 some building ; this is the more probable from the position of the 



