Mold depicting a charioteer and archer
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.This small clay disc depicts a warrior unleashing an arrow while driven by a charioteer, perhaps a heraldic image of a Mauryan ruler in the Achaemenid tradition of warrior-kingship. It was excavated together with inscribed ring stones and probably also served as a jeweler’s mold for ear ornaments.
Artwork Details
- Title: Mold depicting a charioteer and archer
- Period: Maurya
- Date: ca. 200 BCE
- Culture: India, Pataliputra, Bihar
- Medium: Black clay
- Dimensions: H. 3/4 in. (1.9 cm); Diam. 3 in. (7.6 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics
- Credit Line: Lent by Bihar Museum, Patna
- Rights and Reproduction: Photo by Theirry Ollivier
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art