1.3.02026-10-23beslagRådata4570948objektStatens museer för världskultur - Etnografiska museetSMVK-EMFöremålhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/objekt/45709481903.11.0456, K.11228.691, 1903.11.0358, 1903.11.0368, ÖM:K-11228-691Beslag? av elfenben. Dekor bestående av snidade små figurer och ornament i hög relief. Längd: 10 cm. (k-katalogen).Arkeologiskt föremål förvärvat i Borazan. Föremålen inköpta av Hedin från lokalbefolkningen. I brev hem av den 10 januari 1896 skriver Hedin: "Yesterday I visited the village of Borazan, where those remarkable Buddhist antiquities are found, but I made practically no discoveries. On the other hand the natives come along daily with their terracotta figures, pots, precious stones with engraved portraits, coins, Buddha images etc. ... and I have acquired a lot of these things cheaply enough. There is an old Tartar, of Orenburg, living here, by the name of Rafikoff, and he speaks Russian fluently. He has paid me several visits, and when I called upon him he presented me with a number of these antiquities." - cit Montell 1936 nr 7., “The richly carved plate, in deep relief and slightly convex, PI. Ill, 6, presents some problems difficult to solve. Its outer shape is complete, but unfortunately the central figure is considerably damaged. Along the edges there is a row of small holes indicating that the object has been attached to some kind of support. The ornamentation is undoubtedly of a Buddhist-Tantric character, its close relationship to other Khotan art of Indian origin at the same time being palpable. It is thus possible to compare the flulTy tail-feathers of the birds with human upper parts of the body that support the vessel for holy water at the bottom with fragments of pottery from Yotkan.® The upper half of the relief contains a hexa- gram whose six angles are each filled with a similar standing figure. The figure inside the central hexagram cannot very well be definitely determined. Evidently it is a divinity whose one foot is placed on a prostrate human figure. The right arm is raised above the shoulder and holds an object, the left rests against the breast. The whole figure brings to mind a Lamaistic mandala. The central figure might be interpreted as a dakini, e. g. Simhavaktra.^ The hexagram is borne and supported by another six female figures which may be considered as yakshini It is difficult to say how this remarkable object was used, but it should be pointed out that it greatly resembles the bone aprons that are still used by Tibetan Lama monks for certain ceremonies. The central figure, too, may be the same in both cases.* On the other hand, the object in the Hedin collection is much more richly ornamented and is made with greater finesse and in better agreement wdth Indian prototypes. Additional finds and more material for comparisons may perhaps in the future make possible a definite interpretation”. Pl. III.6, Montell 1938, p.98-99 https://archive.org/details/Bulletin10_201704/page/n153/mode/2up This plaque may have been one piece of a ritual apron or chest adornment composing of other bone plaques and beads. They were worn over textile costumes during ritual dances carried out by Buddhist monks. It is possible that it is made from human bone. The deity depicted probably represents Vajrayogini./Michel Lee 2020-08, Föremålet saknar placering och har eftersökts i magasin på EM 2020-08 men inte påträffats./mibo, (Datering 100-800 baserad på att en stor del av fynd från Khotan har daterats till denna tid, behöver inte vara korrekt för just detta föremål)., Montell, Gösta, 1938. p. 98-99., Montell, Gösta (1938) Sven Hedin’s archaeological collections from Khotan. In: The Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. Band 10, S. 83–113., ÖM:K-11228-691, Hedinexpeditionen, första centralasiatiska expeditionen (1893-1897)InsamladHedin, Sven AndersTillverkadYotkan, KhotanUrsprungAsienFunnenKinaLånadÖstasiatiska museetimage/jpeghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/image/tn/4570984/1903.11.0456.jpghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/image/zoom/4570983/1903.11.0456.jpghttp://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#byBroné, MiaStatens museer för världskulturimage/jpeghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/image/tn/4570988/1903.11.0456_mbalt.jpghttps://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-em/web/image/zoom/4570987/1903.11.0456_mbalt.jpghttp://kulturarvsdata.se/resurser/License#byBroné, MiaStatens museer för världskulturhttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/samling/1025818http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/objekt/568732http://libris.kb.se/bib/8259174https://kulturnav.org/0ad1c6a7-81c9-4e3c-8381-4923074b95bahttp://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/1001508http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/name/1441756http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/objekt/html/4570948http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/objekt/xml/4570948http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-EM/objekt/rdf/457094879.565,37.17194444444444