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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Antiquities| > |Central Asian Antiquities| > AB54491
Eastern India, Buddhist Terracotta Votive Sealing, c. 8th Century
|Central| |Asian| |Antiquities|, |Eastern| |India,| |Buddhist| |Terracotta| |Votive| |Sealing,| |c.| |8th| |Century|, At holy sites and temples Buddhist pilgrims would purchase small votive offerings, to present to the shrine to be interred inside a stupa, or to take home as a memento. Votive offerings varied from place to place and over time. They were often made of terracotta and included small plaques, stupas, and sealings. The various sealings texts include meaningless pseudo-writing, repeated mantras, passages from the Ramayana, the Buddhist creed, prayers, etc. Because few early Buddhist manuscripts have survived in India, the writings found on these humble sealings provide a rare glimpse of the various scripts used in India in ancient and early medieval times. -- https://papyri.tripod.com/buddhist/introsealings.html
AB54491. cf. Zwalf, p. 33 and nos. 144 - 146, Choice, maximum diameter 29mm, obverse Sanskrit text: the Buddhist Creed; reverse undecorated; mica sparkling in the clay, from Alex G. Malloy; SOLD










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