Gandharan Sculptures, Chandigarh Museum, India
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DOI| 10.34946/D6XG68 | |
| Project Name | Gandharan Sculptures, Chandigarh Museum |
| Country | India |
| Status | Published |
| Citation |
| Aviral Agarwal, Dominique Rissolo, Falko Kuester, Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative (CHEI) 2026: Gandharan Sculptures, Chandigarh Museum - Photogrammetry - Terrestrial. Distributed by Open Heritage 3D. https://doi.org/10.34946/D6XG68 |
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| Photogrammetry - Terrestrial | 16.1 GB | Canon EOS R50 | Mirrorless |
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| Site Description | Gandhara, being a region heavily involved in the Silk Road trade, studying the syncretic sculptures of the region is of immense importance. The Government Museum and Art Gallery boasts an impressive collection of 627 pieces in its Gandharan Sculpture collection, containing many examples excavated in the 19th century.
Sculptures:
Seated Buddha Figure
Maitreya Figure
Amitabha Preaching Stele
Standing Buddha Figure
Bodhisattva Figure
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| Project Description | Over the course of 2 days in March 2025, five Gandharan sculptures were digitized using photogrammetry as a part of a preliminary investigation, which will lead to a proposal supporting the capture metrologically accurate 3D models of Silk Road cultural artifacts from sites and museums all over the world. These assets would be available for free public access to encourage comparative studies into the transmission of artistic and cultural conventions along the Silk Road, and to facilitate open scholarly engagement with material that would otherwise remain physically inaccessible to most researchers worldwide.
This project is being planned in collaboration with members of the University of California San Diego, University of the Aegean in Greece, the University of Henan in China, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and with the Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes project at University College London.
Special thanks to Ms. Seema Gera, the curator, and the rest of the cooperative staff at Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh, and to the Kinsella Innovation fund at UC San Diego.
See full report at:
Agarwal, A., McAvoy, S. P, Rissolo, D., & Kuester, F. (2026). Field Report: Gandharan Sculptures Mar 24th – 25th 2026 Government Museum & Art Gallery, Chandigarh, India. UC San Diego: Cultural Heritage Engineering Initiative (CHEI) at Calit2. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3kh8s354
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| Additional Information | Learn more |
| Collection Date | 2026-03-24 to 2026-03-26 |
| Publication Date | 2026-04-12 |
| License Type | CC BY |
| Model Information |
| Reuse Score | B - High-Quality Model without Georeferencing |
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