Cleveland Museum of Art
Double-Faced Crossbar from a Railing
- Date
- c. 150 BCE
- Medium
- plum-colored sandstone
- Culture
- India, Madhya Pradesh, Bharhut, Shunga period
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This lens-shaped section of a crossbar is from one of the the earliest known Buddhist monuments in India to be embellished with stone relief carvings. It is from a circular fence that surrounded a stupa and demarcated the sacred space from the outside world.
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