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Terracotta Sculpture from the Ancient Northwest: 300 BCE - 60 CE
| Title: | Terracotta Sculpture from the Ancient Northwest: 300 BCE - 60 CE | | Author: | Siudmak, John | | Publication: | Marg | | Enumeration: | Vol. 54 Issue no. 1; September 2002, p. 32-41 | | Abstract: | The article examines the development of terracotta sculpture in historical North-West India, largely material excavated at Taxila and Charsadda, ancient Taksashila and Pushkalavati. Several points emerge in the study. The Indus acted as a natural boundary to influences between the two centres. The enduring strength of local tradition is very evident in the form of the crudely modelled primitive goddess, which exerted its influence on the flamboyant Baroque Lady found at Charsadda, as well as modifying the Hellenistic figurines of Taxila that developed there. Another is the extent of mainstream Indian influence at Taxila during the second and first centuries BCE, thought by Marshall to have declined following the collapse of Mauryan power. Source of Abstract: Provided by Publisher | | Tools: |
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