Sri Ksetra, Bago, Myanmar. Guardian figure in repoussé silver.

Sri Ksetra, Bago, Myanmar. Guardian figure holding a club, in silver repoussé. Now in the National Museum of Myanmar, Yangon, as documented in 2017. Probably 6th century.This is one of five found plaques found in the Khin Ba relic chamber in 1926-27, and could have been part of the original installation there along with the great silver reliquary. See: Janice Stargardt, "The Great Silver Reliquary from Sri Ksetra: the oldest Buddhist art in Burma and one of the two oldest Pali inscriptions in the world," in Festschrift for Professor J.G. de Casparis, ed. K. van Kooij and M. Klokke (Groningen: Egbert Forster, 2001), 487-519. 13 pls