Gandharan terracotta figure of a female torso wearing a necklace, and with only one arm.
Head and upper torso from a female human figurine of a broadly Sar Dheri type: short outstretched arms, large thick necklace, appliqué breasts, slit appliqué eyes, pinched nose and an elaborate coiffure, now lost. The sides of the head appear to be adorned with ears with long pierced lobes. The high decoration at the top of the forehead, usual in this kind of figurine, is now lost with only the position scar remaining. This is a votive image, in the usual way, representing probably a nature or fertility deity or even a yakṣiṇī, or guardian nature spirit (female equivalent of the male yakṣi). Marked on the back of the figure in black ink with ‘Lp’, along with the number ‘6’ in pencil and an almost invisible further two-character set ‘_A’ set in a circle just above the site abbrevation, the first character now illegible. This site abbreviation has not been recognized, though given the Sar Dheri character of the figure itself, it is likely to be somewhere in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Archaeological context: presumably unstratified and from a surface collection. Early Historic Period, circa 1st or 2nd century BCE. Given by Col D H Gordon (1952/3).
