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

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

ears were fitted to the head separately. The eyes and the lips were finely shaped. Its material is red pottery with many quartz granules. Here and there on the face traces of white paint are to be found. Its height is : 4,4 cm. Fig. 8. Fragment of man's head. It wears a high twisted, pointed turban. The face is round. The ears and the eyes were fitted to the face separately. The ears are large, round, standing out. Its material is granular red pottery in some places with traces of white paint. Its height is 4,5 cm. Fig. 9. Half-figure of man. From underneath the breast its body is missing. An oval face with large ears, and emphasized nose. The eyes, the lips, the nose are finely shaped. Its head is covered with a caplike headgear hanging behind. The body is hollowed. Its left arm has broken off, its right one is inorganic, flat, ribbon-like, it is bent back to the breast. Its material is granular red pottery sporadically with traces of white paint. Its nose is slightly worm. Its height is 7,1 cm. The lastly described six figurines belong to the third group of those outlined at the beginning of the present study. We have found analogy to this in the material of Musée Guimet.

7 To the last group we have classified three pieces. Fig. 10. Fragment of male half-figure. Its body from the waist is missing. It is handed only on one side, it is moulded. Its face is oval, its nose is emphasized, its arms are flat, ribbon-like. The hands are placed on the breast. On its head we see a turban-like headgear, the hair falls in locks to the forehead. Though the face is formed in a primitive way, but we can already observe a development of some degree against the preceding ones. The eyes are shaped plastically, but they are outlined by deepened contour as well. Its material is brighter red pottery with traces of painting. Its height is 5 cm. It belongs to the type of grotesque figurines, dwarfs, yaksha-s.

8 Fig. 11. Male half-figure. It belongs to the type of grotesque figurines.

9 From waist downwards its body is missing. It is a relief-like moulded specimen, shaped only on one side. The head is relatively large, the belly is bulging. It bends both arms in the elbow, it raises its hand to the neck. Its face is smiling, grotesque. In front its hair falls in locks to the forehead, its ears were formed by incision. They are decorated by two large pendants. On its neck there is a dogneck-collar, on the wrist we can see a pearly bracelet in three rows. On its waist there is a pearly ornament. The figure shows an organic structure, its hands are also well shaped. Its characteristic features : contoured eyes, the plastic mouth, the jewels, the slightly squat structure of the figure 7 Das Gupta: Unpublished ancient Indian terracottas, p. 301 Fig. 60 analogy to Fig. 5 —6, p. 301 Fig. 58 analogy to Fig. 7. About the latter male head Gupta writes that it wears worked-up hair, on our similar piece it is rather a turban-like headdress. Fig. 56 is almost entirely identical with Fig. 8. 8 Agrawala, V. S.: Terracotta figurines of Ahichchhaträ, District Bareilly, U. P. Ancient India IV (1948) p. 119. He dates this type of terracotta figurines between 100 — 350 A. D. 9 Agrawala: loc. cit.