The sculptures as displayed in the British Museum.
Material
Limestone
Created
1st century BCE to 8th century CE
Discovered
1797 Amaravathi Mahachaitya
Present location
British Museum, London
The Amaravati Collection, sometimes called the Amaravati Marbles, is a series of 120 sculptures and inscriptions in the British Museum from the Amaravati Stupa in Amaravathi, Guntur in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The Amaravati artefacts entered the Museum's collection in the 1880s. The Amaravati sculptures were sometimes also called the Elliot Marbles on account of their association in with Sir Walter Elliot, who had them removed from the site to Madras in the 1840s.[1]
There are also large collections of Amaravati sculpture in the Chennai Government Museum, which has the best collection, and at the site museum at Amaravati, and smaller ones in other museums in India and around the world.
1858 photograph by Linnaeus Tripe
^This was essentially a 19th-century term, in emulation of the Elgin Marbles and other Greco-Roman groupings, which was applied to the whole group taken to Madras by Elliot. Most of it is now in Chennai (Madras), supplemented by later finds. Nearly all of the smaller group now in London come from Elliot's group.
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the 1st century BCE to the 1st century CE. Slab of AmaravatiMarbles, depicting of the Great Amaravati Stupa, with a Buddha statue at the entrance, Amaravathi...
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