Railing pillar from the Amaravati Stupa3D Model
The lower section of an octagonal pillar, carved in limestone (‘Palnad marble’) with reliefs depicting: a pillar topped with a seated lion on a platform above foliage emerging from a purnaghata, a pillar with a vedika railing and a dharmacakra mounted on it above a mass of stylised foliage, a yaksa blowing a trumpet from which emerges a mass of viney foliage below a pipal tree flanked by lotuses and surrounded by a plain vedika,and a stupa with umbrellas above a mass of viney foliage emerging from a purnaghata.
Height 2.555 metres, diameter 38.75 centimetres.
Made by Daniel Pett from 530 photographs taken with a Sony A6000, assembled in Photoscan Pro.
COL: RRI1259
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