Stucco Figurines from HaddaAuthor(s): Basil GraySource: The British Museum Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Aug., 1935), p. 7Published by: British MuseumStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4421765 .

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freedom and vigour too sophisticated to be called primitive, but such as is never again exemplified in Chinese painting. It is fitting that it should join in the Museum collection the only important surviving painting of the succeeding age, Ku K'ai Chih's Admonitions of the Instructress. B. GRAY.

3. STUCCO FIGURINES FROM HADDA.

THE Museum has lately benefited by the action of the Council

of the National Museums of France, which, at the instance of M. Hackin, Director of the Musie Guimet, has authorized the deposit on permanent loan of a series of twenty stuccoes from the excavations at Hadda, about five miles south of Jalalabad. These excavations, undertaken in 1926-8 by M. Barthoux for the French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan, are of great importance for the study of the Gandhara school of sculpture, as well as for early Buddhist studies in general, as the first thorough investigation of an important Buddhist site in the area beyond the Khaibar Pass from which much rich material has, during the last seventy-five years especially, come down to Peshawar. Most of this material was the fruit of unauthorized digging by the native Afridis, and even such pieces as those in the Museum collection which came from Simpson's visit to Hadda in 1879 do not form a sufficiently extensive series to be used as data for a survey of the art. The finds of M. Barthoux at Hadda, on the other hand, were extremely rich, especially in stuccoes, and his publication of them, which is now in progress, will provide ample material for the study of this last phase of the Hellenic style in India from the third century A.D. down to 530, when all this country was devastated by the Huns. Of the twenty pieces now to be placed beside the Museum's large collection of Gandhara sculp- ture, eighteen are heads. They represent the variety of the types found from the expressionless Buddha to the almost Gothic monk and donor. B. GRAY.

4. AN OLD BABYLONIAN FROG-AMULET.

T HE remarkable little work of art illustrated on P1. IIIc, is a recent acquisition of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian

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