#charsadda

[pollyj]

Figure of Mother Goddess

Charsadda, Pakistan, 1st century BCE-1st century CE

This terracotta figurine depicts a female deity or mother goddess. The frontal and symmetrical posture is characteristic of a type of hand-modelled archaic fertility figure. Typically these figures had applied slit-pellet eyes, flat bodies with diminutive but prominent breasts, wide hips, and short outspread arms. An incised vertical line suggested the legs.

The person who hand-modelled this figurine has applied high relief decoration to the flat form. Here applied incised florets and leaves form an elaborate headdress. This, together with the incised jewellery and applied costume, combine to create a highly ornate image of a fertility goddess.

[jackiestarsister]

Tonraq, Senna, Kya, and Katara recruit a militia. Korra begins her training and bonds with everyone on Air Temple Island. Unalaq pays Zaheer and P'Li a visit.

In this chapter, we finally meet the last of my original characters, Charsadda! Here is @eviechan68’s wonderful design of him:

Here he is with the other male benders around his age in this story, including another OC of mine, Damasak. Hopefully the four of them will meet at some point; they would make a fantastic team, with all four elements at their disposal.

[shakilakhund]

View from Khyale river in Charsadda near Sardaryab, Charsadda #countryside #village #peaceful #tour #charsadda

[pollyj]

Cosmetic dish

Charsadda (Gandhara), 2nd century - 5th century

Pale grey steatite

Cosmetic dish decorated with a figure riding a water monster based on Roman representations of a Nereid riding a sea monster, but perhaps influenced by Indian conceptiions of the Makara - a creature like a crocodile.

[pollyj]

Figure

Terracotta

1st century BC, Sari Dheri

Torso of a female figure with extended arms and unshaped face. Lower portion of the body merged onto a pedestal having comb marks on the front. There are numerous circular indentations on the face and body.

[pollyj]

Fertility Goddess

AD 100s

Pakistan, Gandhara, reportedly Charsadda, early Kushan Period

Female figures fashioned from terracotta were found at large man-made pools of water in early Buddhist sacred compounds. They indicate the importance of art and rites associated with fertility and childbirth among the Buddhist laity, of which women were a major component. The wreath, small breasts, and gentle modeling of her full-hipped body associate this figure with Greco-Roman imagery.

[pollyj]

On the banks of the Kabul River

[pollyj]

Sardaryab, Charsadda