Abstract
In the early twentieth century of present India and Pakistan, Several British Army
officers were also unprofessional archaeologists. Some of them, including Colonel D.H.
Gordon and Colonel D.R. Martin, Calm human terracotta figurines in this collection of
British Museum came from the north-west frontier province of Pakistan and presently
called The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, mostly from surrounding Villages
about Peshawar, Charssada and Mardan. They were bought from farmers or might be
antiquity dealers. Thus, these figurines were illegally dug out and then sold or donated to
the British Museum. There they were stored and display without Any Detailed Description
and being studied or proper research. The purpose of this research Article is: To
investigate and understand a collection of figurines That has not so far been published.
This research will study and examine a collection of terracotta human figurines of two
sites Sar Dheri and Sahri Bahlol in the British Museum. The study of these figurines, and
understanding of their meanings and functions based on decorations and facial features.
The Sar Dheri figurines with decorations may represent an unknown folk deity as the
decorations are not the symbol of any deity that appears in Hindu, Jain or Buddhist
mythology. The Sahri Bahlol figurines greatly bear a resemblance to those figurines
identified as Rājghāt and Ahicchatrā excavation reports. The study of these figurines
proposing further investigation in South Asian terracotta figurines that would lead to a
comprehensive history of the evolution of figurines in South Asia from Mehrgarh to the
present.
IRFANULLAH, FAZAL SHER, AMJAD PERVAIZ. (2017) The Pakistani Collection of Terracotta Figurines in the British Museum, Pakistan Heritage, Volume 9 , Issue 1 .
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