Girdle
Title Girdle
Accession Number 49.262/14
Museum Name National Museum, New Delhi
Gallery Name Jewellery
Object Type Jewellery
Main Material Gold
Manufacturing Technique Hand-made
Find Place Sirkap, Taxila
Period / Year of Work c. 1st cent. BCE
Dimensions 13.7 x 3 cms.
Brief Description

The pieces might have been part of a waist girdle comprising three horizontal rows of four fishes made of thin sheet gold stamped with a design of fish scales.

Holes are pierced in their mouth and tails for the cords to pass through.