Tapa-i-Shotor: Head of Female Figure
Stucco
Tapa-i-Shotor: Head of Female Figure
Tapa-i-Shotor: Heads of Female Figures
AFGHANISTAN, Nangarhar, Hadda
Most of the sculptures discovered at the site were made of stucco that was sun-dried after molding and painted. The pieces are of great variety, depicting both religious and lay people in meticulous detail. There is a clear Hellenistic influence, although the last of the Greek kingdoms in the area disappeared centuries before these statues were made.
The heads portray young women of considerable presence and personality. One depicts a younger girl with curly hair tied in a modest topknot and turns her head to look to one side. The other woman wears a high topknot and elaborate ornaments that signify her as nobility.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1194.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Tapa-i-Shotor: Heads of Female Figures." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1194.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Tapa-i-Shotor: Heads of Female Figures" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1194.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Tapa-i-Shotor: Heads of Female Figures. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1194).
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