Kanishka’s relic casket, rear side view, Shahji-ki-Dheri. Cat. Stein LHAS Photo 13/2 (3)
The following set of three Archaeological Survey photographs of the Frontier Circle from 1911 to 1912 show ruins and artefacts explored and found at the time when Stein was Superintendent of archaeology of this territory and Honorary Curator of the Peshawar Museum.
This Buddhist reliquary of the great Kushan emperor dated 127 C.E. was found in a great stupa at Shahji-ki-Dheri, in the outskirts of Peshawar, during archaeological excavations in 1908 to 1909. At the top Buddha is shown flanked by Brahma and Indra. The casket has a Kharoshthi inscription.