A BACTRIAN CABOCHON GARNET ROYAL INTAGLIO FOR THE HUNNISH CHIEFTAN KHINGILA

HEPHTHALITE PERIOD, CIRCA EARLY 5TH CENTURY A.D.

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A BACTRIAN CABOCHON GARNET ROYAL INTAGLIO FOR THE HUNNISH CHIEFTAN KHINGILA
HEPHTHALITE PERIOD, CIRCA EARLY 5TH CENTURY A.D.
Finely engraved with the princely figure seated cross-legged, with long moustache, large eyes and brows, wearing a floral diadem, tied with a ribbon falling onto his shoulder, and drop earring, holding a flower in his raised left hand, and a sword in scabbard across his back in his right hand, with surrounding inscription in cursive Bactrian naming Khingila, a tamgha motif below inscription on right
7/8 in. (2.2 cm.) long

Provenance

Surena collection, London; acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
P. Callieri, "The Bactrian Seal of Khingila"; and N. Sims-Williams, "The Bactrian Inscription on the seal of Khingila", Silk Road Art and Archaeology, VIII, 2002, pp. 143-148.

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