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Head of a grimacing yaksha, or nature spirit
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › north India › Uttar Pradesh › Mathura district › Mathura (place of creation)
- Date
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2nd - 3rd century AD (AD 101 - 300)
Kushan Period (AD 50 - 600)
- Material and technique
- mottled pink sandstone
- Dimensions
- 25.5 x 25.3 x 11.5 cm (height x width x depth)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 1994.
- Accession no.
- EA1994.95
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Further reading
Topsfield, Andrew, ‘Indian Art at the Ashmolean Museum’, Oriental Art, 43/4, (Winter 1997-1998), p. 28, illus. p. 25 fig. 6
Harle, J. C., ‘Revisions and Previsions: Indian Sculpture 1970-1995’, Raymond Allchin and Bridget Allchin, eds, South Asian Archaeology 1995: Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, Cambridge, 5-9 July 1995, 2 vols (New Delhi: Oxford and IBH Publishing, 1997), p. 610, fig. 7
Ahuja, Naman, ‘Early Indian Art at the Ashmolean Museum - Catalogue in progress’, 2016, no. 102
Glossary
yaksha
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yaksha
A semi-divine male nature spirit.
Location
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Ground floor | Room 12 | India to 600
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Ground floor | Room 12 | India to 600
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