610 Note on some Sculptures found in Peshawar. [No. 7. 



attempt to represent the king of gods. Capt. Hogge's figure is more 

 like the usual type of the Greek " Zeus" than mine. 



Fig. 11 (Plate XXXVI.) — Is a head with a nearly perfect " halo" 

 or nimbus round it ; it apparently has belonged to a figure similar to 

 Nos. 1 and 2, but of smaller size ; it also bears the " tilak" or caste- 

 mark between the eyes. 



Fig. 1 2 (Plate XXXVII.) — Is part of a " nimbus" apparently, which 

 must have belonged to a very large head, and is ornamented with some 

 emblematic figure now too mutilated for identification. 



Fig. 13 (Plate XXXVIII.) — Is also a very mutilated specimen, but 

 it is worthy of remark for the girdle round the waist, which is com- 

 posed apparently of beads or a knotted cord. The right hand carries 

 what may have been the handle of a Chouri, and it therefore possibly 

 represents an attendant and has formed part of a large group. 



The stone in which these figures are cut is chiefly a light greyish 

 blue limestone, but some are cut in what is apparently a micaceous 

 schist, which is, however, but slightly laminated. 



In these sculptures two general characteristics may be noticed. 



As to the first of these, the share which Grecian art must have had 

 in their production, I do not think any one who examines them can 

 have any doubt. Indeed the figure 4 is alone sufficient to settle the 

 question, if its evidence were not also corroborated by the general 

 grace of the design and the classic arrangement of the drapery of all 

 the sculptures generally. 



Nor could it have been Greek art at a very late or debased period ; 

 to compare their execution with that of the coins of the Bactrian 

 kings, there is, I think, nothing approaching to these figures of later 

 dates than Menander. 



Another argument for assigning them to a period not long subse- 

 quent to the establishment of the Bactrian monarchy, is afforded by 

 the style of architecture which they affect. 



From Major Cunningham's researches it would appear that the Corin- 

 thian architecture did not take firm root in India, and he traces the 

 style to which he has given the name of " Arian" to a Doric origin. 



This however is rather negative evidence, for though the "Arian" 

 style was certainly extensively prevalent south of the Indus at a very 

 ancient period, yet some of the most promising ground for architectural 

 remains lying Trans-Indus, is at present virtually unexplored. 



