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Funerary Casket of King Sihavikrama
Not on view
This stone funerary urn is one of four excavated in 1911–12 at a royal burial site near Payagyi stupa outside the walls of the Pyu city Sri Ksetra. Each bears a one-line inscription identifying the royal personage—in this case, Sihavikrama—probably all members of the local Vikrama dynasty. The inscriptions are in the Pyu language, written in the as-yet undecifered Pyu script. This urn is contemporary with other Pyu objects from Sri Ksetra that share this distinctive writing style, assigned to the late fifth to sixth century.
cat. no. 24
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