Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 8. (Budapest, 1965)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM — MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Tóth, Edit: Terracottas of the Kushan period

Fig. 1. Male (?) head. we cannot see any more this disjunction and the face shows in particular pieces quite a fine plastic. The arms are still flat and ribbon-like. The modelling of the fourth type is the most careful of all and shows a certain parallel to the style of Kushan sculpture of Mathura. The ears are smaller and adjust themselves more naturally to the forms of head. The eye was modelled plastically, but it was emphasized also with forceful, incised contours. The representation of the body and limbs is more realistic. Among the figurines relatively few are moulded. The body of the major part is hollow, three-dimensional and it shows individual working. Fig. 1. Head-fragment, it represents perhaps a man. The head-form is round, the nose protrudes from the face, it is emphasized. The eyes being disproportionately large, the eyebrows, the little mouth were incised in a drawing-like way. The ears were separately fitted to the head. On the back part of the head, behind the ears and in the middle we can see six pierced holes which might have served to fix the headdress. Its left ear has broken off, on the remnant there is a trace of large, round ear-drops. Its material is red pottery. Its measurement: 4,8 cm. A very similar piece has been uncovered in Sari Dheri which is dated by M. Gordon to the 1st century A. D.

3 3 The figurine has been already elaborated by Zoltán Felvinczi Takáts and he dates it to the Kusan period as well ,,Kusana art in the Francis Hopp Museum at Budapest and some related art products". The article was published in "Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art" 1937. p. 175. See analogy Gordon loc. cit. m