On the next panel we see the Buddha in meditation, seated in a closely fitting niche where the trilobed arch almost encircles the head and shoulders of the figure. |
The trilobed nature of this vessel was further enhanced by being twisted around its vertical axis so that three curvilinear fins are created. |
The labellum, which is articulated at the base of the column, is trilobed, reddish-brown spotted and papillose with acute lateral lobes. |
Posterior margin more or less trilobed, and the ventral lobe more prominent than the others, bending ventrolaterally. |
Spoon, latten, tinned, the bowl oval and the handle flat with a trilobed terminal. |
What all authors have agreed in calling the mentum is very noticeable, being large and broad, and trilobed behind. |