Alexandra Vanleene

Docteur en Sciences de l'Antiquité, spécialiste de l'Art et de l'Archéologie bouddhique du Gandhāra

[Alexandra Vanleene @AlexVanleene]

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🇬🇧 Bust of Musician

This musician has a soft, idealized face and straight, medium-length hair. He seems to have a double goitre, unless it is a decoration or an object worn around his neck. He wears a garment...

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🇬🇧 Musician

This medallion shows a musician blowing a horn, depicted in profile. The medallion is broken and damaged. The figure seems to have voluminous hair, probably with a headdress. The face is foreign:...

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🇫🇷 Donatrice

Cette donatrice est porteuse d'une offrande (un fruit ?). Sa réalisation est délicate, le visage doux est idéalisé. Une double rangée de boucles plates encadrent le visage, tandis que le reste de...

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🇫🇷 Tête de démon

Ce démon arbore un faciès animal, mi-bovin mi-canin. Une expression démente se lit dans les yeux exorbités de ce mauvais génie aux cornes recourbées et aux oreilles animales qui s'arrache la...

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🇬🇧 Head of Bodhisattva

Bodhisattva head with almost feminine features, of Central Asian inspiration. The hair is treated in wavy strands, folded on themselves. The turban consists of two bands of fabric joine...

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🇬🇧 Head of Monk Bhikṣu

This young monk has a shaved head. The face is idealized, similar to that of many Buddhas: the eyes are half-closed, he smiles sweetly and the earlobes are deformed.

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🇬🇧 Head of Bodhisattva

This Indian-type Bodhisattva stands out against a large nimbus. He wears a rigid turban bordered by a headband and decorated with gold-plated pieces; a rectangular central plate is surr...

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🇬🇧 Head of Brahman

The hair is long and falls over ears with deformed lobes. A lock of hair is twisted into a small bun.

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🇬🇧 Head of Buddha

The face of this Buddha is of Central-Asian inspiration. The forehead is curved, the painted eyebrows draw a very large flat arch. The lower part of the face is square, massive, accentuated...

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🇬🇧 Head of Warrior

This head of warrior is very eroded. Slightly brachycephalic, the figure has straight hair, styled in short locks. He has a moustache and a shaved chin. His facial features are effaced.

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🇬🇧 Head of Brahma or young brahman

The hair is stylized and consists of rows of flattened curls, closed on themselves, which frame the face. The expression is not hieratic: the eyes are open, the half-open mo...

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🇬🇧 Head of Bodhisattva

The medium-length hair is treated in rows of almost triangular curls, in the shape of flames. This Bodhisattva wears a diadem consisting of a rectangular plate surrounded by medallions,...

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🇬🇧 Torso of Demon

The face of this hybrid demon is partly canine, combined with a short, broad nose. The awful mouth has sharp teeth and boar's tusks, and a protruding tongue. From the temples protrude curiou...

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🇬🇧 Head of female Donor

This female donor's head is damaged. The turban is wrapped around the forehead, then twisted around a loop-shaped flap that falls backwards. The features are idealized: half-closed eye...

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🇬🇧 Head of a female donor

This female-looking figure is probably a donor. The long hair falls on either side of a median parting, covering large disc-shaped earrings. The face is soft and round. The eyes are...

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🇬🇧 Head of Brahma or young brahman

The hair frames the face and falls freely, wavy, on either side of a median parting. On the rest of the hair and on the bun, cavities evoke the wave. The face is very soft,...

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🇬🇧 Head of a donor

This damaged head is perhaps that of a donor with idealized features. On what remains of the hairstyle, we can distinguish a turban or a headdress.

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🇬🇧 Bust of Warrior

The soldier is dressed in a long-sleeved tunic with a hemmed edge that crosses over the chest. A pleated shawl appears to cover the left shoulder. He is holding a lasso in his left hand, th...

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🇬🇧 Head of god Indra or a Bodhisattva

The figure depicted could bethe god Indra, a Bodhisattva or a secondary deity. He is wearing a turban that is folded back and attached by a medallion at the forehead to f...

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🇬🇧 Head of Brahman

The modelling being very eroded, we can only distinguish the main features of this Brahman. He has a moustache, a shaved chin and half-length hair, falling on either side of a median partin...

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