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Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books

slightly hollowed behind, widening gradually towards bowl
end, but narrowing quickly to form neck immediately
before bowl (which is broken off). Length 3⅝″, gr. width ⅜″.

K. Yar. 07. Fr. of bronze handle (?). Straight-sided,
flat, slightly curved from end to end. 2⅜″×¾″.

K. Yar. 08. Bronze spoon-handle, same shape as that
of K. Yar. 09, Pl. X, and broken across beginning of bowl
in same place, but break smoothed over. Tip of other end
also broken off. Length 3¼″, gr. width 1⁄16″.

K. Yar. 09. Bronze spoon, with oval bowl pointed at
tip, and straight handle proceeding from it at angle of
about 30° and curved slightly back at free end. This
end slightly broadened into leaf-shape ; thence handle
first narrows and then widens very gradually to ⅜″ above
bowl, where it narrows to form short 'neck'. Bowl
broken off near neck, but preserved separately. Graceful
shape ; fair condition. Length 5¼″, gr. width of bowl
1¼″. Pl. X.

K. Yar. 010. End of bronze handle (?); flat band,
forming convex curve from end to end. True end finished
off sq., with nick in middle ; other end broken. Surface
orn. with faintly incised cross-lines and diagonals. 1¾″×⅜″.

K. Yar. 011. Bronze knife-blade (?). Straight, with
one cutting edge, and other thickened. Much corroded.
Broken each end. ¼″×1⁄16″.

K. Yar. 012. Bowl of bronze spoon ; wide oval as K.
Yar. 09, but tip rounded. Handle lost. Corroded. 1⅜″×
1¼″. Pl. X.

K. Yar. 013. Bronze plate ; pear-shaped, with short stud
behind at each end. Length ¼″.

K. Yar. 014-16. Three frs. of bronze plate ; corroded.
Gr. M. 1¼″.

K. Yar. 017. Fr. of bronze hinge. Two flat plates, with
adjacent side of each finished respectively in two and three
projecting loops, so placed as to fit in between each other
when plates are placed together. Bronze pin then passed
downwards through the five. Short studs at back of free
ends of plates. Corroded when plates spread flat ; hinge
no longer working. ⅞″×1″.

K. Yar. 018. Bronze strap-loop. Long D-shaped plate,
with oblong slit in middle, and rivet-hole in each corner
and in middle of curved side. One rivet remaining.
1 1⁄16″×¼″.

K. Yar. 019. End of bronze handle (?). Curved, end
to end, convexly ; surface channelled with ridge down
middle. True end finished in fish-tail, by nick in centre,
as 010, other broken. 1⅛″×1⁄16″.

K. Yar. 020-2. Three frs. of bronze bangles (?);
020 and 021 round in section, orn. with incised cross-lines
on outer edge ; 022 elliptical in section, plain. Gr. length
1 1⁄16″, thickness 1⁄16″.

K. Yar. 023. Bronze tag ; straight tongue-shaped, with
convex surface and hollowed at back, from which project
two studs. Surface orn. with cross-grooves at alternate
intervals of c. ⅛″ and 1⁄16″. Length 1¼″, gr. width 1⁄16″.

K. Yar. 025. Bronze strap-loop (?). Elliptical loop
(broken), with ogee projections at outer extremities of
long axis, and one at end of short axis, and with straight
arm projecting from opposite side. Plano-convex in
section, curved surface orn. with channelling. Back of arm
hollowed, with stud projecting from it. Length ¾″.

K. Yar. 026. Fr. of bronze ; flat strip, slightly curved,
with rivet through it near one edge. ⅜″×c. ⅜″.

K. Yar. 027. Bronze plate ; shield-shaped, with two
long studs projecting at back. Corroded. 9⁄16″×¼″.

K. Yar. 028. Fr. of bronze pendent orn. Straight, with
ring (broken) at suspension end and below, three annular
rings forming cincture ; one end broken off in round base
of four closed claw-like limbs resembling a Vajra. Length
1⅛″.

K. Yar. 029. Small bronze buckle-tongue. Flat strip,
curving strongly up at back and then down again to form
loop for passing round bar. Where tongue comes free of
bar its sides expand outwards to form shoulders, then
taper to point. Corroded. Length ⅝″.

K. Yar. 024, 030-1. Three lumps of bronze, corroded.
Lengths ⅜″, 1⁄16″, and 1⁄16″.

K. Yar. 032. Fr. of bronze rod, doubled to form loop.
Round in section, surface moulded in spiral. Length
1 3⁄16″.

K. Yar. 033-4. Two frs. of bronze wire, each bent
so as almost to form ring. Round in section, but one
end of each is beaten flat and has small rivet through it.
Diam. of ring c. ⅜″, thickness of wire c. 1⁄16″.

K. Yar. 036. Fr. of bronze wire ; round in section, one
end thickened, other broken off. Length (corroded) 1⅜″.

K. Yar. 037. Straight copper bar ; plano-convex in
section, one end broken ; the other pointed, perhaps
complete. Groove channelled along middle of top side
from this end to ⅜″ from other. 2⅜″×3⁄16″×⅛″. Pl. X.

K. Yar. 038-40. Three frs. of terra-cotta relief
plaques, showing seated Buddhas, as Ser. iv. Pl. VIII,
A. T. iii. 089. 038. Head and shoulders preserved, with
part of plain nimbus and vesica ; fair condition. Gr.
M. 2¼″. 039. Fig. only, with hands folded in lap. Surface
much eroded. Gr. 2⅛″. 040 (on larger scale). Hands
folded in lap, R. leg, and both feet, crossed and hanging
down with fr. of lotus-petal border between. Gr. M. 2¼″.

K. Yar. 041. Terra-cotta relief fr. of face ; conventional
type with long half-closed eyes in somewhat low relief, high
sharp nose, very short upper lip, and small well-curved
mouth. Remains of light buff slip on face. Gr. M. 3¼″.
Pl. IX.