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Ajanta Caves

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Creator(s)
unknown (Indian (South Asian))
Time period
creation date: first phase of aniconic caves, Satavahana period, ca. 200 BCE-ca. 100 CE, creation date: second phase of caves, Vakataka period, ca. 500-ca. 650
Location
Site: Ajanta (India)
Cultural context
Indian (South Asian)
Description
interior, reclining Buddha, partially obscured, 1966
Work type
Rock-cut temples
Medium
rock
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Rights
(c) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, photograph by G. E. Kidder Smith
Access rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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