Piprahwa: Reliquaries
Soapstone
Piprahwa: Reliquaries
INDIA, Uttar Pradesh, Basti
The first reliquary was excavated from the historic site of Piprahwa in 1895 by William C. Peppe, a British engineer and landowner, and the second was found in 1972 by S M Srivastava, an Indian archaeologist. They were found within stupas at the site. Carved out of soapstone, the two reliquaries are identical in shape, differing only in size. Both have a spherical body and a lid which is surmounted by a sphere on a circular disc, followed by a cone on a smaller disc.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts, page 221.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Piprahwa: Reliquaries." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , vol. 18, 2016, pp. 221.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Stefanie Pokorski, Mankuang, and Wen Fan. 2016. "Piprahwa: Reliquaries" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , 18:221.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Pokorski, S., Mankuang, & Fan, W.. (2016). Piprahwa: Reliquaries. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts (Vol. 18, pp. 221).
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