Abstract
The focus of this research paper is rare and important collection of artifacts
excavated from the Buddhist site of Nimogram Swat Pakistan. The excavations
conducted during 1967 and 1968 at site of Nimogram and the antiquities discovered
were neither studied nor documented properly. A single preliminary report published
by the Department of Archaeology & Museums Government of Pakistan in 1968
(Pakistan Archaeology; Vol. 5, 1968: 116), no extensive study of these artifacts has been
conducted. The main object of this paper is to examine directly the narrative reliefs of
Nimogram and to evaluate its religious, cultural, historical and iconographical
importance so far ignored.This paper discusses and illustrates narrative stone reliefs,
friezes and panels only. These selective stone art piecesreveals different subjects i.e.,
the Buddha’s life events, miracles of Buddha and images of Buddha & Bodhisattva.The
remaining artifacts of Nimogram are beyond the scope of the paper and have been
catalogued and documented in a monograph that will be published shortly.
