Abstract
The following pages present a relief brought to light during the
excavations of the Buddhist sacred area of Saidu Sharif I (Swāt,
Pakistan) by the Italian Archaeological Mission and identified by the
author during a survey in the Mission House. The relief represents the
episode of cūḍā-chedana (the cutting of the hair), rarely depicted in
Gandharan art. Apart from two reliefs (one from Kunduz and the other
from uncertain provenance and kept at the Ashmolean Museum in
Oxford), the relief of Saidu Sharif I is the only one coming from a
documented archaeological context. The discovery of this relief sheds
new light on the contribution of Saidu Sharif’s workshop in the
Gandharan artistic phenomenon, a subject that deserves further study.
Antonio Amato. (2019) The ‘Cūḍā-chedana’: A Gandharan Relief from Saidu Sharif I (Swāt, Pakistan), Journal of Asian Civilizations, Volume 42, Issue 2.
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