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A Painted Book Cover from Ancient Kashmir

Fig. 10: Detail showing the first sermon of Buddha Shakyamuni at Sarnath
from a book cover
10th century or earlier (?)
Pigments on wood
5.7 x 56.8 cm.
Gift of the Kronos Collection and Mr. and Mrs. Findley, 1979 (1979.511).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.


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