One of the Buner reliefs, depicting devotees, holding plantain leaves, in purely Hellenistic style, inside Corinthian columns, 1st-2nd century CE. Buner, Swat, Pakistan. Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Buner reliefs is a term for a number of stone reliefs in or taken from Buner District, in the Peshawar valley in Pakistan, once in ancient Gandhara. They are also near the Swat Valley.
Most come from Buddhist contexts, but are decorative small-scale architectural sculpture, and many show purely secular scenes, in a style heavily influenced by Hellenistic art.
Bunerreliefs is a term for a number of stone reliefs in or taken from Buner District, in the Peshawar valley in Pakistan, once in ancient Gandhara. They...
similar to the contemporary Loriyan Tangai stupas and the addition of schist reliefs. The stupa was rebuilt under Kushan rule in the 4th century CE into a cruciform...
District Allai District Bajaur District Bannu District Battagram District Buner District Charsadda District Central Dir District Dera Ismail Khan District...
Numerous depictions of Greeks are known from the area of Gandhara. The Bunerreliefs in particular have some of the clearest depictions of revelers and devotees...
Bimaran Casket Kanishka reliquary Stone palettes Buddhas of Bamiyan Bunerreliefs Saptarishi Tila statue Post-Mauryan coinage of Gandhara Kabul hoard...
Bimaran Casket Kanishka reliquary Stone palettes Buddhas of Bamiyan Bunerreliefs Saptarishi Tila statue Post-Mauryan coinage of Gandhara Kabul hoard...
surface the Loriyan Tangai stupa, with an elongated shape and many narrative reliefs the near-pyramidal Jaulian stupa The cruciform design further evolved into...
Bimaran Casket Kanishka reliquary Stone palettes Buddhas of Bamiyan Bunerreliefs Saptarishi Tila statue Post-Mauryan coinage of Gandhara Kabul hoard...
revolt of An Lushan, a Turco-Iranian rebel. Indo-Scythian dancers, Bunerreliefs, Gandhara, 1st-2nd century CE. Left: a man holding a plate of fruits;...
the British Museum, the statue itself, with folds of clothing having more relief than those of the Loriyan Tangai Buddha, having disappeared. Loriyan Tangai...
Christian era. To this period may be ascribed the fine statues and bas-reliefs found in Gandhara and Udyana. Under Huvishka's successor, Vasushka, the...
Bimaran Casket Kanishka reliquary Stone palettes Buddhas of Bamiyan Bunerreliefs Saptarishi Tila statue Post-Mauryan coinage of Gandhara Kabul hoard...
Bimaran Casket Kanishka reliquary Stone palettes Buddhas of Bamiyan Bunerreliefs Saptarishi Tila statue Post-Mauryan coinage of Gandhara Kabul hoard...
geographical areas. Head of the Buddha. Butkara I, 2nd century CE Buddhist relief with warrior. Butkara I, 1st century CE. Statue at the site Alchon Hun devotee...
Bimaran Casket Kanishka reliquary Stone palettes Buddhas of Bamiyan Bunerreliefs Saptarishi Tila statue Post-Mauryan coinage of Gandhara Kabul hoard...
Bimaran Casket Kanishka reliquary Stone palettes Buddhas of Bamiyan Bunerreliefs Saptarishi Tila statue Post-Mauryan coinage of Gandhara Kabul hoard...
Bimaran Casket Kanishka reliquary Stone palettes Buddhas of Bamiyan Bunerreliefs Saptarishi Tila statue Post-Mauryan coinage of Gandhara Kabul hoard...
Bimaran Casket Kanishka reliquary Stone palettes Buddhas of Bamiyan Bunerreliefs Saptarishi Tila statue Post-Mauryan coinage of Gandhara Kabul hoard...
stairs with stair risers, from the Chakhil-i-Ghoundi Stupa A Gandharan Bunerrelief of a stair riser with devotees (1st-2nd century CE), Victoria and Albert...
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