Turin City Museum of Ancient Art

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Entrance to the Turin City Museum of Ancient Art.
Entrance to the Turin City Museum of Ancient Art.

The Turin City Museum of Ancient Art in a museum located in the Palazzo Madama palace, in Turin, Italy. The museum has a rare collection of artifacts from Gandhara, coming from the Italian excavations of the IsMEO at the Butkara Stupa in Pakistan. In winter 2007, it openned an exhibitions entitled "On the traces of Alexander, from Seleucia to Gandhara".

Indo-Corinthian capital from Butkara Stupa, dated to 20 BCE or earlier (Turin City Museum of Ancient Art).

Parthian horseman. Palazzo Madama, Turin, Italy.

Head of the Buddha. Butkara I, 2nd century CE

Buddhist relief with warrior. Butkara I, 1st century CE.
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