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An imperfectly fired clay seal, oval in shape. The inscribed impression is sunk slightly below the surface. The upper part, about one third, shows a bull decorated with a garland and walking to the proper right; there is an umbrella above it. In front of the bull walks a man carrying an axe and a standard with a cakra on top; his face is turned back toward the bull. Behind the bull another man carries a smaller axe and what may be a cāmara or a driver's stick or whip. The device part is very similar, but not identical, to that on the seals of Śarvavarman (OB00131, OB00132, OB00133). Between the emblem and the inscribed lower part there is a single horizontal line, which does not seem to turn upward on the photograph. The reverse is convex, irregular, and "shows a hole in the thickness just below the inscription for attachment, even as seals were attached to land grants" (Vats 1947-48: 63). Could this be a string hole? |