Railing pillar from the Amaravati Stupa

The lower section of an octagonal pillar, carved in limestone ('Palnad marble') with reliefs depicting: a pillar topped with a seated lion on a platform above foliage emerging from a purnaghata, a pillar with a vedika railing and a dharmacakra mounted on it above a mass of stylised foliage, a yaksa blowing a trumpet from which emerges a mass of viney foliage below a pipal tree flanked by lotuses and surrounded by a plain vedika,and a stupa with umbrellas above a mass of viney foliage emerging from a purnaghata. Height 2.555 metres, diameter 38.75 centimetres. Made by Daniel Pett from 530 photographs taken with a Sony A6000, assembled in Photoscan Pro. COL: [RRI1259](http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=179436&partId=1) Source: Objaverse 1.0 / Sketchfab