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Green paint and gilding over white. Soft clay mixed with
fibre. 1¾″ × ¾″.

H. B. 006 (recte v. 008). Fresco fr. On brilliant red
ground appears a white globular vase-like object against
which is a human foot, outlined red. Drapery of the
lower part of a flying fig. (?), and floating ends of scarves,
and blue and red beads are scattered about this red back-
ground; but it is too fragmentary to reconstruct. The
draperies are freer in treatment than those of H. B. i. 002,
but have the shading noted in that example. Colouring
very fresh. 11¾″ × 8⅝″.

H. B. 007. Fresco fr. Much abraded. Seems to repre-
sent part of ornamental inlaid pavement arranged in irregu-
lar rectilinear shapes, each shape being either red, green,
or buff, with a scroll pattern painted in outline in a darker
tint. Buff dividing bands run between the 'tiles'. Towards
one end is perhaps part of a Padmāsana, but fr. too
much damaged to determine. 10⅝″ × 6″.

H. B. 008. Fresco fr. Dirty buff and white, with black
and red lines. Unintelligible. 2″ × 1¾″.

H. B. 009. Fresco fr. On light red ground, part of
Buddha(?) head. Flesh buff, all outlines black, hair black
and close-cropped. Eyes straight, slightly downcast.
Good strong work. 1¾″ × 1⅝″.

H. B. 0010. Stucco fr. Small human finger. Top joint
delicately tapered and recurved, and whole finger slightly
crooked. Paint pale buff over white slip. Clay mixed
with fine fibre. 1¾″ × ⅝″.

H. B. i. 001. Stucco relief fr. of flame (?) orn. Ver-
milion. Soft clay. 1⅞″ × ¾″.

H. B. i. 002. (recte H. B. v. 007). Fresco fr., upper
part missing and broken edge burnt. Shows feet and
lower draperies of fig. standing on lotus. Feet in profile
to L., bare, but with heavy upward-curling anklets orn.
with round green jewels. Skirts of drapery reach about
half down lower leg, and have broad border of scroll-work
in black outline on dark buff. All the drapery is arranged
formally in festoon-like folds, very regular and evenly
spaced. Each fold is indicated with a black line, with
a faint grey shadow following it from end to end, and over
this a pink wash again following the line. General tint of
drapery light pink. From the waist girdle hang two bands,
evenly twining about each other, with two parallel black
lines ⅜″ apart, running along the centre of each. To L. is
end of a floating scarf, pink. Bead-jewels, sometimes
attached to ornamental bosses, hang from girdle.
Padmāsana has green centre, inner ray of petals, curling
upward, grey with lighter edges and black centres; outer
ray, curling outward, light scarlet with yellow edges and
maroon centres. General background dark red brown.
All outlines black, including flesh, but excepting anklets
and ornamental bosses, which are outlined red. The
general style of work shows excessive stylization, especially
in monotonous treatment of drapery. From north-east

corner of cella H. B. v. (erroneously marked). 1′ 8¾″ ×
1′ 1″. Pl. XII.

H. B. i. 003. a–c. Three frs. of canvas painting,
fine cotton (?), repaired in antiquity with backing of closer
dark red fabric. From portion of main fig. preserved on
(b) and (c) seems to have been Thousand-armed Avalo-
kiteśvara. Top of head seen on (b) with black hair,
flowered diadem, and circular nimbus, green, with red and
buff border. Flesh pink outlined red; head ¾ to L. On
either side are upraised hands, R. holding red disc with
black radii, prob. the disc of the Sun; L. a plain bluish-
white disc, that of the Moon. On (c) remains fold of red
drapery across breast, and two hands in attitude of adora-
tion. On R. traces of radiating arms and buff background
covered with small spiral diaper in fine black lines. Along
upper edge of painting (a) and (b) is row of miniature
seated Buddhas, black-haired, pink and red robed. Back-
ground dark blue. Between the Buddhas are oblong
vermilion labels for inscriptions (blank). Below on (a) is
part of canopy (?) of fig. adjoining Avalokiteśvara, against
background of cushion-leaved red-flowering trees common
in Ch. paintings (e.g. *Ch. lii. 003). The canopy top is
formed of three boss-like jewels, in circular down-turned
flower settings, red and maroon, with pearl and conical
flame on top. Below at L. on red ground is part of orn.,
buff outlined red, with blue and green jewels; and across
red ground below is black curving band on which are
narrow white petals set side by side.
Much paint lost everywhere. Good fine workmanship.
1′ 2″ × 1′ 7″.

H. B. ii. 001–2. Stucco relief frs. Pair of feet
broken across insteps. Traces of yellow paint on feet
and on ground of white and green (lotus throne?); core
of stand projects below. Soft clay mixed with straw.
3⅝″ × 2″ × 1⅗″.

H. B. ii. 003. Stucco relief fr. Little finger, curled.
Plentiful remains of gilding. Soft clay mixed with fine
fibre. End to end 2″.

H. B. ii. 004. Stucco relief fr. of hanging drapery.
Cf. H. B. ii. 006; end missing. Traces of gilding. Soft
clay. 3¾″ × 1⅗″ to ⅝″.

H. B. ii. 005. Stucco relief fr. Zigzag end of hanging
drapery. Traces of gilding and of green over gilding.
Soft clay mixed with fibre. 2″ × 1⅛″.

H. B. ii. 006. Stucco relief fr. End of hanging drapery
quite straight with two perpendicular grooves and zigzag
ends as H. B. ii. 005. Outer folds, gold; centre folds,
green with gold; border edges red. Soft clay mixed with
fibre. 6″ × ⅝″.

H. B. ii. 007. Stucco relief fr. Edge of drapery; wave-
like folds. Traces of gilding. Soft clay mixed with fibre.
3″ × 1⅝″.

H. B. ii. 008. Stucco relief fr. Wrist of fig. under
life-size; shows bracelet with three rows of beads and