Mathura: Lion Capital
Sandstone
獅子柱頭
印度北方邦秣菟羅出土
印度北方邦秣菟羅（Mathura, Uttar Pradesh）出土。造像由兩隻脊部相連的蹲獅組成，獅頭較小，身軀顯得厚實壯碩。肩背上置有一方形石板，正面浮雕卷草紋。底部有一榫頭，應為柱頭和柱身結合處。西元前八世紀的波斯王宮裝飾遺品中，有兩隻牛背部相連的柱頭裝飾，故知此獅子柱頭在圖像結構上受到波斯建築裝飾的影響。
柱頭上的銘文具有珍貴的文獻資料價值。銘文中明確記錄了施主的名字和布施的內容，並說明目的主要是為了供養佛法僧三寶。除獅頭和方形石板外，銘文文字由柱頭表面一直延伸到了非目力所及的石材接合面，顯然具有向佛與菩薩祈願的性質。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 702.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Mathura: Lion Capital." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 702.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Mathura: Lion Capital" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:702.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Mathura: Lion Capital. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 702).
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