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DescriptionPre-Mauryan terracotta from Buxar (Bihar Museum, Arch. 6650).jpg
English: * "Bust of a similar figurine, flat type of face, with curvilinear eyes, head holed with three double holes, hair tripartite. Bright yellow terracotta with light red slip. Height: 6f\ cf. Kumrahar 3(4330) (6650)." Patna Museum catalogue, p.255
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  • "Some figurines from Buxar can be dated in the late pre - Mauryan and early Mauryan period , that is, roughly in the fourth century B.C." [2]
  • "The site of Buxar in Bihar, although a part of the Middie-Gangetic Valley, has a unique and distinct style of sculpture in this period. It is in keeping with the general style of Mauryan terracotta of hand modelled bodies with moulded faces. However this is where the similarity ends. Usually seated, their iegs support the sculpture in front and a stump acting as a third leg completes the tripod that balances the figure. [Figs. 3.156 - 3.162] They have slim hips, prominent breasts and their out-stretched arms are lifted up to a height below shoulder level. Their smiling moulded faces are topped by the most remarkable turbans, hats and coiffures. They wear little jewellery and are relatively plain, barring the over emphasised headgear and noticeable earrings. This limited ornament is at times stamped with a whirling cakra or rosette, incised or stippled. Most of these pieces are housed either in the Patna Museum or are now in the Site museum at Buxar, built upon the private collection of Shri. Sitaram Upadhyay. Although the century or so later moulded terracotta plaques from Buxar are more detailed, the figures have the same slim form and elaborate headgear." Early Indian moulded terracotta: The emergence of an iconography and variations in style, circa second century B.C. to first century A.D By Naman P Ahujap.45
Date Pre-Mauryan, ca. 4th century BCE
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