Amaravati Marbles British Museum

The amaravati collection sometimes called the amaravati marbles is a series of 120 sculptures and inscriptions in the british museum from the amaravathi mahachaitya in amaravathi guntur in the indian state of andhra pradesh the amaravati artefacts entered the museum s collection in the 1880s.

Amaravati marbles british museum.

While the colonisers took a good portion of their bounty back home to england a collection of the amaravati marbles is on display at the british museum in london they sent 299. The british museum london see amaravati marbles united states. The sculptures which are the subject of this monograph rank with the elgin marbles and the assyrian reliefs among the great possessions of the museum. Also known as the elliot marbles the amaravati marbles are a collection of 120 sculptures and inscriptions housed in the british museum in london that were recovered from the amaravati mahachaitya in guntur andhra pradesh.

The amaravati sculptures have also been called the elliot marbles on account of their association. They form the only major series of early indian sculpture outside india yet they have never been the subject of an. The other half of the amaravati stupa steles and pillars are in the british museum now. Buddhist sculpture from the great stupa.

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By douglas barrett. Granite italian marble travertine. Museum of fine arts boston. Bharhut sculptures from the stupa railings of the bharhut stupa are now in the indian museum kolkata.

They were used to decorate the outside of the stupa. It was on its way to london when the ship sank off the coast of sri lanka. Seattle art museum seattle. The other half is in the sea off sri lanka.

The amaravati sculptures in british museum are also known as elliot marbles on account of their association with sir walter elliot who caused their excavation in 1840s. The shrine is in india but you can see some of the sculptures also known as the amaravati marbles at the british museum.