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Begram Ivory and Bone Carvings

Catalogue Number: 30.I.001

Technique: Flat Relief/Openwork

Material: NA

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Theme: Mythological Creatures

Motif: Yaksas

Description: A vyåla-yak?a depicted frontally grasping the tails of two makaras. The makaras are depicted in profile to the left and right and are swallowing the legs of the vyåla-yak?a.

Reference: Hackin 1939, p.85, fig.73

Museum Number: MG 18979

Chapter Reference(s):
   2_3
   3_1
   4_2b
   4_3
   4_3b

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