Vedic Sculpture in Naples

[Valerie J Roebuck]

Dear Mr Jain

Several of us list members were puzzled by an item on p. 9 of the January
2001 MLBD newsletter.  A description of an exhibition of the "secret
collection" of the National Archaeological Museum, Naples, is captioned
"Vedic Sculpture in Ancient Italy".

Since the material in this collection is predominantly Roman, we wondered
how the misunderstanding arose.  We wondered whether someone had seen the
description of "sexual activity involving gods and goddesses, satyrs,
nymphs and pygmies" and jumped to the conclusion that it must be Indian!
But this still does not explain why it was called "Vedic".

Yours sincerely

Dr Valerie J Roebuck
Manchester, UK

>Kindly refer your mail written to Indology list on  2nd Feb. referring
>MLBD on account of the above subject. Please let us know the  confusion
>you are refering to so that if it is our fault we may rectify or else
>give you clarification.   Sincerely, Rajeev Jain