Greek area Rare artefacts recovered by Customs

Aretefacts to be housed in the Islamabad Museum

ISLAMABAD: Department of Archaeology and Museums (DoAM) has added 1,000 artefacts, recovered by customs staff at the Islamabad airport at various instances, to its collection including a unique bowl and a ram-shaped object made of 19 tolas of gold which will be housed in the Islamabad Museum.

“These artefacts belonging to Buddhist, Greek and Mughal period were recovered by customs officials and handed over to the relevant department of DoAM after fulfilling all legal requirements and now the number of recovered artifacts in Islamabad has reached up to 12,000” revealed by Director (Archeology), DoAM, Abdul Azeem. Speaking to the media on Thursday, Azeem said customs officials have saved these artifacts.



He said the bowl is open-mouthed of 16.5 cm diameter and 5.7 cm depth with flat base interior. The bowl is decorated with embossed figures of winged lions and acanthus leaves alternatively. The bowl has bearded human head with long curly hair in its centre and head rests on four round shaped objects. He said it seems that the human shape carved on the bowl is of Dionysus.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 29^th, 2017.