1901.] Section IV. — Pottery , Terracottas , Miscellaneous Objects. 51 
Plate XII. 
This Plate comprises only antiques of a distinctly Buddhistic 
character. No. 1 is a portion of a wooden board, measuring about 
II* X 5| xf inches. Left side, top and bottom are entire ; on the right 
side a portion is broken off. It is painted on both sides with sitting 
figures of Buddha with aureole behind, done in the Indian style. The 
hair is black in one figure, and blue in the other. Their drapery is in 
reddish brown, and the nude parts in a pale carnation. The concentric 
circles of the aureole are alternately reddish brown and yellow. The 
outlines of the figures also are in reddish brown. 
Nos. 2 and 3 are of painted stucco, measuring about 5| x 4" and 
4 x 3" respectively. No. 2 represents an Apsaras (or female Gandharva), 
holding a garland, and rising out of a lotus. 16 The lotus is red, the 
figure white with black hair, the garland also white. No. 3 shows 
Buddha, sitting, as usual, cross-legged with hands folded in the lap, on 
a lotus pedestal, and against a double aureole of lotus leaves. The 
Buddha is fully draped in blue, his hair and top-knot are black, face 
and hands white. The inner aureole, immediately behind him, is red ; 
the outer is blue, like the drapery. The pedestal is white. 
Nos. 4 and 10 are Buddha heads of grey sandstone, much worn, 
measuring about 4 x 2J and 8| x 5 inches respectively. (The smaller 
head is also shown in full size in Plate IV, No. 19, of Part I). Peculiar 
is the arrangement of the hair and top-knot, in the larger head, No. 10, 
in concentric semicircles, arching over the forehead. I do not remember 
having observed this peculiar arrangement elsewhere in any representa¬ 
tion of Buddha. 
Nos. 6, 11 and 12 are carvings in black slate, and of very good 
Graaco-Buddliist art, such as are well-known from the Indus regions. 
They appear to be the oldest pieces in the collection, and probably do 
not come originally from Eastern Turkestan. The drapery of the sitting 
figure on the back of No. 11 is exceedingly good, and suggestive of pure 
Greek art. No. 6 is the capital of a small Corinthian pillar, measuring 
l^X 1 inches. The upper portion is divided into four sections, contain¬ 
ing representations, alternatively, of sitting and standing Buddhas. 
No. 12 seems to be a portion of a small pilaster, If inches high, with 
a flat, smooth back, while the front is carved with figures one above the 
other. The upper one is a kneeling figure, with hands folded in adora¬ 
tion. Of the lower figure only the head remains. No. 11 is a piece of 
16 In the Terracotta Room (comp. 34) of the British Museum, there is a Sicilian 
plaque (of the 3rd-lst cent. B.C.)in the form of the bust of a winged boy rising 
out of a lotus. This is the only instance of a similar object that I have’noticed in 
the British Museum or other collections. 
