Dr. Hoernle —Antiquities from Central Asia. 
[Extra No. 1, 
KO 
t)£ 
slate carved on both sides, and uncertain what it may have belonged to. 
It measures about 3^-xlf inches. The front is carved in a series of 
panels, containing Buddhistic scenes. The middle panel shows Buddha 
in the witnessing attitude (right hand pointing downwards over the 
right knee), surrounded by Mara’s host. The lower panel shows him 
in the teaching attitude (right hand raised), surrounded by his disciples. 
The upper panel is wholly broken off, together with the head of the 
figure carved on the back. This figure, beautifully draped, is represented 
sitting on a cushioned stool, the feet placed on a footstool and the right 
elbow resting on the right knee, the head inclined forward and supported 
by the right hand. Under the seat is seen a vase or water-vessel, 
resembling the Indian surahi. 
Nos. 5 and 7-9 are of copper or bronze. No. 5 is a piece which 
appears to have served as the background to a separate figure of Buddha. 
It represents an aureole made up of an arch formed of several minute 
Buddhas, each sitting on a stalked lotus. Five of them are preserved ; 
the total number probably was seven. They are shaped exactly like, 
but only about half the size of, the Buddha figure of No. 7, which 
is shown in full size. The latter has a knob on the back, showing 
that it was once attached to an aureole, similar but larger than that seen 
in No. 5. No. 9 shows a similar series of seven Buddhas, sitting in a 
level row on the branches of a tree. The whole must have formed the 
top ornament of some other object. No. 8 shows the usual figure of 
Buddha, sitting cross-legged and with hands folded in the lap, fully 
draped, and with a small circular nimbus behind the head. The figure 
sits on what looks like the imitation of a carpet, and against a similar, 
nearly circular, aureole-shaped carpet worked with wreaths, hung up 
behind. 
Plate XIII. 
This Plate contains a number of miscellaneous objects, among 
which Nos. 1-3 and 5-9 are of terracotta and come from Yotkan in the 
Borazan tract near Khotan. Nos. 1-3 are the heads of a boar, a bull, and 
a horse, and may have belonged originally to full figure animals ; or they 
may have formed ornaments stuck on to the body of vases, like the 
half-figures of horses springing from some sepulchral vases found in 
Canusium, Calvi and Capua, and to be seen in the Terracotta Room of 
the British Museum. No. 5 is a curious head, half man and half beast. 
It is perforated through head, neck and mouth, and may have formed a 
spout. 16 This may also have been the case with No. 6, a large (2f x If") 
16 In the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford there are two archaic vases from 
Cyprus (of the Geometrical Period) which have spouts in the form of a bull’s head 
and neck. 
