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Sealing with Enthroned Buddha Calling the Earth to Witness
Not on view
Large concentrations of these clay impressions were found in ruined stupa mounds both within and beyond Sri Ksetra’s city walls, confirming that their primary function was to serve as merit-making offerings. The expanded production of these clay impressions in the late first millennium seems directly linked to the wider circulation by itinerant monks of the matrices used to make them.
cat. no. 55
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