Rampurva: Lion Capital of an Asoka Pillar
Sandstone
阿育王獅柱
印度比哈爾邦蘭普爾瓦出土
印度比哈爾邦蘭普爾瓦（Rampurva, Bihar）出土。獅子面部損毀，頭頸和胸部的鬃毛雕成一束束密集排列的火焰紋，相當工整而圖案化，較顯華貴。前肢繃緊的肌肉、遒勁的足掌與鉤爪等特徵，明顯吸收了波斯阿契美尼德王朝（Achaemenid，559～330 BCE）獅子雕刻形式的元素。承托獅像的圓盤立面雕一列低頭覓食的鵝。圓盤下方為覆蓮瓣構成的鐘形托座。
柱頭通體成深碳灰色，與其他阿育王柱柱頭不同，一般認為因作品自十九世紀末出土以來，被置於加爾各答印度博物館入口處逾一百年，粉塵污染所造成，原色應為淡黃。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 874.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Rampurva: Lion Capital of an Asoka Pillar." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 874.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Rampurva: Lion Capital of an Asoka Pillar" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:874.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Rampurva: Lion Capital of an Asoka Pillar. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 874).
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