Clay Sculptures

As far as the clay sculptures are concerned, the excavations of the archaeological sites of Sirpur revealed a vast corpus of the remains^[1] of 7^th-8^th century A.D. Many beautiful earthen sculptures like the earthen images, earthen pots, clay seals inscriptions as well as articles of daily need are found from the excavated sites. The earthen sculptures are being made by the traditional technique by which the art subjects were prepared with soft and moist clay, which were dried up and then burnt.

Some of the important clay antiquities, preserved in the M.G.M. museum, Raipur include the comparatively big and significant image of Buddha in Dharmacakra pravarttanamudra (giving discourse) is noteworthy. This image has curled hair and Prabhamandala around his head. Besides, the sculptures of elephant, horse, buffalo, sheep, deer, bull and female images are also discovered in Sirpur. The M.G.M. museum Raipur, also contains a huge sized burnt earthen pot, which was found during the excavation of Dr. M.G. Dixit.