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📷1: #HeliodorusPillar in #Vidisha #India
📷2: Heliodorus Pillar inscription made by Heliodorus, circa 110 BCE.
📷3: Structure & decorative elements of Pillar. The design of the base of capital with bell-shaped lotus, the cable necking

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The abacus with pecking-geese and honey-suckle designs are in direct prolongation of the artistic choices made in the pillars of Ashoka, with some variations such as the prismatic structure of the pillar or the details of the carving.

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#HeliodorusPillar is a stone column that was erected around 113 BCE in central India in Vidisha near modern Besnagar, by Heliodorus, Greek ambassador of the Indo-Greek king Antialcidas to the court of Shungaking Bhagabhadra.

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