Sujet

Relics from the Buried City of Brahmunabad, in Sind - Pottery, Ironwork, Glass, etc, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Relics from the Buried City of Brahmunabad, in Sind - Pottery, Ironwork, Glass, etc, 1857. 8th- or 9th-century objects excavated at his own expense by Mr. A. F. Bellasis, of the Bombay Civil Service, in what is now Pakistan. 'Fig. 14: a bronze ornament, [as seen in Buddhist sculptures and paintings in the Cave Temples]; Figs. 15: bronze ornaments - one the handle of a dagger or other small weapon; Figs. 16: crucibles, for purifying gold and silver; Fig. 17: an oil lamp of pottery; Figs. 18: finger-rings-one of metal, the other of glass; Figs. 19: cornelian and agate beads, armlets, and ornaments, strung together; Figs. 20: curious cornelian ornaments; Fig. 21: small glass utterdan, or bottle for otto of roses - testifying to a knowledge of the art of blowing and cutting glass existing in the eighth century; Figs. 22: fragments of the necks of glass bottles; Figs. 23: moulds for ear-rings and other female ornaments'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A76_249

Model release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

26,6Mo (1,8Mo) / 32,5cm x 20,5cm / 3844 x 2419 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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