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- Title
Gandhāran Buddhist Paintings and Sculptures Antiquities from Yakatoot - Peshawar.
- Authors
KHAN, Muhammad NASIM
- Abstract
The Directorate of Archaeology and Museums (DoAM) Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) preserves one of the best collections of Buddhist period sculptures in the world. Some of these artefacts are kept in the different Museums in the Province of KP or stored in the main building of the DoAM. These objects were either acquired or were donated to the Peshawar Museum before the independence of Pakistan in 1947. But after the establishment of the DoAM in 1992, the number of its antiquities is increased enormously, particularly with the amount of sculptures and other objects moved from the former Sub Regional Office (SRO) of the Federal Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Pakistan, after its devaluation in 2010. Moreover, archaeological investigations in the Province continue and add more to this large collection of the DoAM. A large number of sculptures and other cultural objects preserved in the DoAM also consists of seized materials. The objects presented here are among those antiquities which were seized during a police raid at a house situated in the Yaktoot area of the Peshawar city.
- Subjects
PESHAWAR (Pakistan); BUDDHIST painting; BUDDHIST sculpture
- Publication
Gandharan Studies, 2015, Vol 9, p37
- ISSN
1996-9120
- Publication type
Article