Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 10. (Budapest, 1967)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Horváth, Vera: Maurya Mother Goddess Figurines

Fig 5. Figure of a woman place of the hanging, or applied streamers, or band can be found. Detailed studies on these latter figurines prove that they represented the same type of framed head-dress as Figurines 4 and 5, though the applied decorations fell, due to the effects of inappropriate baking, or sheer violence. The place of the applied ornament can be well seen on both sides of the face and on top of the heads. As evidence suggests, therefore, all the six figurines were made during the period of the Maurya art (325-185 B.C.), the place of origin is North West India. One may very well ask, who are represented by the figurines and how did they get to North West India. By considering the rosettes, Gordon's suggestion was that the figurines might be the image of the Persian, then Parthus Great Goddess-alias Anaitis, Anahid, or Naina, being worshipped under the 500 years of Greco-bactrian, Saka, Parthus and Kushan reign. Since 1950-1951, however, when Das Gupta and Rowland first published their studies, it was il* 163