Bāmiyān Cave A

The cave has a square floor plan and the ceiling is domed. There are squinches built in the four corners. The squinches are decorated with a painted row of seated Buddhas. The tambours had also been filled with seated Buddhas and ornamentation. Most of these paintings have either been stolen or have chipped off. Blackening phenomena has been progressed. (Iwai 2006, p. 34)

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