Inscribed elephant capital from Kankali Tila, at Mathura. Photographer: Caney, W.
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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, ...
View of rock with Asoka inscriptions, showing eastern face with edicts I-XI, Shahbazgarhi, Peshawar District. Photographer: Beglar, Joseph Daviditch Melik
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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...
Unidentified site, Swat Valley. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
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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.
Statue of a Bodhitsattva and plaster-cast of Kharoshti inscription from Kaldarga near Dargai, Swat Valley. Photographer: Caddy, Alexander Edwin
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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...
Close view of the inscription on the Buddhagupta Pillar, Eran, Sagar District. Photographer: Cousens, Henry
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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.
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
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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.