The Silk Road5 November – 30 November 2018 Introduction Press Gallery Events The Silk Road5 November – 30 November 2018 Introduction Press Gallery Events The Silk Road5 November – 30 November 2018 Introduction Press Gallery Events 1 • Two Carnelian Beads 2 • Carnelian Etched long bead 3 • Chalcedony Ear-lobe Weight 4 • Three Indus Valley Seals With Unicorns 5 A-J • Indus Valley Seals 5 K • A Three-faced Horned Shaman in a Yoga Position 5-L • A Leaping Man Sacrificing a Bull 6 • Cylinder Seals 7 • A Terracotta Drinking Vessel 8 • A Terracotta Scoop 9 • A Terracotta Grey Ware Painted Ceramic Pot 10 • A Terracotta Grey Ware Painted Ceramic Dish 11 • A Terracotta Grey Ware Painted Ceramic Dish with Deep Brown Pigment 12 • A Terracotta Bowl 13 • A Large Terracotta Bowl 14 • A Tall Terracotta Bulbous Vase 15 • A Large Terracotta Jar 16 • A Group of Terracotta Goddesses 17 • A Carved Limestone Male Bust 18 • A Banded Alabaster Male Figurine 19 • A Mother-Goddess Riding Out 20 • A Mother-Goddess on a Horse 21 • A Cast High-copper Bronze Head of a Priest-King 22 • Copper Figure of a Royal Female Figure Making an Offering 23 • A Rare Cast Bronze Cosmetic Flask in the Form of a Woman 24 • A Copper Figure of a Wild Boar 25 • A Group of Eight ‘singing’ Alabaster Vessels 26 • A Polished Limestone Seated Bull 27 • Three Horned Heads of Mouflons 28 • A Carved Stone Bear 29 • Glazed Limestone Owl 30 • Solid Cast and Gold Inlaid Silver Bull 31 • An Anaconda in Brecciated Granite 32 • A Shell-Inlaid Schist Spouted Vessel 33 • An Important Large Bactrian Copper Bowl 34 • Double Cube Vessel 35 • Beaker With Geometric Decoration 36 • Cup with A Feasting Scene 37 • Tall Goblet with Hunting Scenes 38 • A Round Circular Seal With A Ruler Seated On His Throne 39 • A Bowenite Head Gazing Towards The Heavens 40 • A Round Circular Seal With Royal Figure 41 • A Pair Of Gold Bangles 42 • A Necklace of Gold, Lapis Lazuli and Turquoise 43 • A Gold Vessel 44 • A Gold Pendant in the form of an Eagle with Outspread Wings 45 • A Tattooed Man 46 • A Scythian Silver Belt Fitting 47 • A Remarkable Scythian Nephrite Jade Buckle in the form of the head of a Saiga Antelope 48 • A Superb Bronze Bust of a General 49 • A Silver Pin with a Sabre-Tooth Tiger’s Head 50 • A Lapis Lazuli Three-Faced Pazuzu on a Gold Electrum Pin 51 • A Bronze Bull 52 • An Achaemenid Bronze Seal in the shape of a Falcon 53 • A Scythian Bronze Deer-Head Harness Fitting 54 • Three Bronze Amulets 55 • A Scythian Gold Pin 56 • A Greco-Scythian Jade Lion-Head Harness Attachment 57 • A Ceramic Bowl showing a Prince with a Falcon 58 • A Bronze Figure of Bejewelled Lakshmi 59 • An Eastern Hellenistic Engraved Agate Seal 60 • A Scythian Bronze Roundel showing a Griffin attacking a Stag 61 • The Rape of Europa 62 • A Dark Red Chlorite Cosmetic Dish Carved with the Goddess Nana Riding a Lion 63 • A Ptolemaic Bronze Bezel of a Ring 64 • An Orange Carnelian Seal 65 • An Eastern Hellenistic Engraved Agate Pendant 66 • Agate Seal with Gajalakshmi 67 • A Bronze Figure of Eros 68 • A Hellenistic Gold Ring with Carnelian Intaglio of the head of Socrates 69 • Bibulous Bacchus on an Upturned Amphora 70 • A Hellenistic Agate Bowl and Dish 71 • A Bronze Goblet Illustrating The Story of Prince Kunala 72 • A Highly Important Bronze Figure of a City Goddess 73 • A Mauryan Stone Roundel 74 • Buddha Pada (footprints of Buddha) 75 • A Buddhist relief with Tusita Heaven and Fasting Siddhartha scene 76 • A Buddhist Relief with a scene of the First Sermon of Buddha 77 • Buddhist Temple / Vihara 78 • Stone Stupa 79 • Gandhara Head of Atlas 80 • An Important Oval Bronze Portable Buddhist Shrine 81 • A Green Chlorite Fragment of a Relief Showing a Man in a Yogic Posture 82 • Gandhara Grey Schist Head of the Buddha 83 • A Superb Grey Schist Statue of Prince Siddhartha 84 • Silver Casket 85 • Stone Torso 86 • Large Stucco Buddha Head 87 • Large Standing Stucco Bodhisattva Siddhartha 88 • A Unique Gandhara Bronze Mask of Sakyamuni 89 • A Bronze Seated Siddhartha 90 • An Early Bronze Image of the Buddha 91 • A Rare Kushan Bronze of Skanda Karttieya 92 • An Ivory Cosmetic Pin-Handle 93 • A Rare Kushan Ivory Carving of a Loving Couple (Maithuna) 94 • Two Pillars Each Carved with a Yakshi 95 • A Circular Green Chlorite Plaque Carved with a Goddess 96 • Silver Gilt Statue of a Modest Venus 97 • The Bronze Bust of a King of Kapisa in Devotion 98 • Four-Armed Tara on a Double Lotus Throne 99 • A Rare Steatite Stamp with the text of the Bodhigarbhalamkaralaksa Dharani 100 • A Green Steatite Stamp 101 • A Semi-Circular Fragment of a Green Steatite Stamp 102 • A Cornelian Seal of The Sasanian King Shapur II 103 • An Agate Seal of the Kushanshah King Hormazd I 104 • Sasanian Silver plate with palace scene King Yazgard I (399–420 AD) 105 • Sasanian Silver plate with hunting scene King Peroz I (459–484 AD) 106 • Two Sasanian Silver gilded Wine Bottles 107 • A Relief of Poplar Wood showing a Buddhist Guardian King 108 • A Scene from Tusita Heaven the Pectoral Depicting Buddhas and Bodhisattvas 109 • A Hephthalite Green Phyllite Oval Plaque 110 • A Soghdian Bronze Mouflon 111 • Fertility Goddess 112 • Soghdian Painted clay Drinking Vessel in the form of a Male Head 113 • A Bronze Aquamanile in the form of a Goose 114 • Portrait of a Soghdian Queen 115 • Stucco Fragment showing the Buddha Teaching 116 • Stucco Fragment showing a Standing Apsara 117 • Stucco Fragment showing a Queen wearing a Diadem 118 • Stucco Fragment showing an Apsara and a Stupa 119 • Stucco Fragment showing Two Seated Bodhisattvas 120 • Stucco Fragment showing a Woman’s Head 121 • A Bejewelled Dagger 122 • Four Early Islamic Jades 123 • An Important Pierced and Gilded Bronze Roundel 124 • An Important Seljuk Bronze Incense-Burner 125 • An Early Islamic Bronze Portable Cannon MIDFA 126 • A Mongol Silver Spouted Vessel 127 • An Early Yuan Blue and White Porcelain Bottle 128 • A Yuan Gilt Bronze Head of a Guardian 129 • Bronze Timurid Candle Stand with Dragon Head 130 • A Nephrite Jade Seal of the Timurid Ruler Shah Rukh 131 • Jam-i-Jam 132 • Nephrite Jade Libation Lotus Cup 133 • The Emperor Jahangir’s Opium Cup 134 • Tantric Hanuman 135 • Two Carnelian Seals from the Imperial Mughal Lapidary 136 • A Silk ‘Samarkand’ Pictorial Saf
