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51. Photo 1003(833)

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Photo 1003(833)
Title:
Inscribed slab from Sironi Khurd, Jhansi District. Photographer: Smith, Edmund William
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography The 'Siyadoni Inscription,' edited by F. Kielhorn in 'Epigraphia Indica', vol. I, pp. 162-179.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s-1890s
Extent:
1 item

52. Photo 1003(837)

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Photo 1003(837)
Title:
Inscribed elephant capital from Kankali Tila, at Mathura. Photographer: Caney, W.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Photograph of the capital, excavated by Cunningham in 1871, showing the inscription from the reign of the Kushan King Huvishka on the base. The head of the elephant has been broken off. Described in A. Cunningham, 'Report for the year 1871-72' (A.S.I. vol. III, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1872
Extent:
1 item

53. Photo 1003(1035)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1035)
Title:
Close view of inscription on pedestal of statue of Buddha, Loriyan Tangai, Peshawar District. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
Scope & Content:
See 'Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal', 1898, p. 60. Gandharan art.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 item

54. Photo 1003(1140)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1140)
Title:
View of rock with Asoka inscriptions, showing eastern face with edicts I-XI, Shahbazgarhi, Peshawar District. Photographer: James Craddock
Scope & Content:
See note at Photo 1003(1141).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1879
Extent:
1 item

55. Photo 1003(1141)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1141)
Title:
View of rock with Asoka inscriptions, showing eastern face with edicts I-XI, Shahbazgarhi, Peshawar District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
Scope & Content:
Similar viewpoint to print 1140, but a little more distant. Bloch describes this as a 'duplicate plate of smaller size,' but it is similar rather than a duplicate. It is unclear when Craddock (the photographer credited with prints 1140 and 1142) visited the site, but it was probably around the t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1878-79
Extent:
1 item

56. Photo 1003(1143)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1143)
Title:
Unidentified site, Swat Valley. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a rock face, with an Indian figure posed above. Bloch dismisses this as 'a mere landscape view', but there appear to be inscriptions on the rock, which would account for the photograph being taken. Small format print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 item

57. Photo 1003(1156)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1156)
Title:
Rock inscription in unknown characters, Swat Valley. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
Scope & Content:
Close view of inscription. Small format print, poor quality.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 item

58. Photo 1003(1159)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1159)
Title:
Statue of a Bodhitsattva and plaster-cast of Kharoshti inscription from Kaldarga near Dargai, Swat Valley. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
Scope & Content:
Print made from a broken glass plate. T. Bloch, 'A list of the photographic negatives of Indian antiquities in the collection of the Indian Museum: with which is incorporated the list of similar negatives in the possession of the India Office' (Calcutta, 1900): 'The statue is now in the Indian M...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1896
Extent:
1 item

59. Photo 1003(1295)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1295)
Title:
Close view of the inscription on the Buddhagupta Pillar, Eran, Sagar District. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:
Captioned and numbered in the negative. For a translation of the inscription, dated 484-485 A.D., see Alexander Cunningham, 'Report of tours in Bundelkhand and Malwa in 1874-75 and 1876-77' (A.S.I. vol. X, Calcutta, 1880), p. 82.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1892-1894
Extent:
1 item

60. Photo 1003(1299)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1003(1299)
Title:
Close view of the inscription on the breast of the Varaha sculpture, dated in the first year of Toramana's reign, Eran, Sagar District. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
Scope & Content:
Captioned and numbered in the negative. See Alexander Cunningham, 'Report of tours in Bundelkhand and Malwa in 1874-75 and 1876-77' (A.S.I. vol. X, Calcutta, 1880), p. 84 for a translation.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1892-1894
Extent:
1 item

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