- Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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It is B. Rowland,who made a research of Gandharan peopled vine scroll for the first time,that is depicted on a vertical relief panel (fig.1) in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [2]. He identified this panel as door jamb... more
It is B. Rowland,who made a research of Gandharan peopled vine scroll for the first time,that is depicted on a vertical relief panel (fig.1) in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [2]. He identified this panel as door jamb which probably decorated a niche enclosing a Buddha statue in a Buddhist temple. He also pointed out that several images of this panel is related to Dionysus and his thiasos, and correctly remarked that they are similar to those depicted on pilasters found in the Roman East. Consequently, he maintained that Gandharan peopled vine scroll had been diffused from the Roman East from the middle of the second to the late third century A. D.