Scene from the Life of the Buddha: Conception (architectural fragment) / Gandhara (ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)
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- Accession Number
- 1997/2.37
- Title
- Scene from the Life of the Buddha: Conception (architectural fragment)
- Artist Nationality
- Indian
- Medium and Support
- stone
- Object Creation Date
- 2nd century - 3rd century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Iuliana and Mark Phillips
- Style/Group/Movement
- Buddhist
- Dimensions
- 17 cm x 34.5 cm x 5 cm (6 11/16 in. x 13 9/16 in. x 1 15/16 in.)
- Century
- 2nd-3rd century
- Physical Description
- A curved stone, originally a facing on the drum of a small stupa, carved with a narrative scene.
- Subject Matter
- A narrative scene of the conception of the Buddha, in which his mother Maya had a dream that an elephant (here shown in a small roundel over the sleeping figure of a woman in the central panel) entered her side. The figure of the sleeping Maya is flanked by two female guards armed with spears, each standing in a nich, while donor figures stand at the outermost edges of the panel. This panel would once have formed part of the drum of a small stupa.
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1411 x 918
- File Size
- 138 KB
- Record
- 1997/2.37
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"Scene from the Life of the Buddha: Conception (architectural fragment); Gandhara (ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1997-sl-2.37/1997_2.37.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024.
