Head of a grimacing yaksha, or nature spirit
On display
Details
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Title
Head of a grimacing yaksha, or nature spirit
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Associated place
Mathura (place of creation) -
Date
2nd - 3rd century AD (AD 101 - 300)
Kushan Period (AD 50 - 600) -
Material and technique
mottled pink sandstone
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Object type
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Dimensions
25.5 x 25.3 x 11.5 cm (height x width x depth) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1994.
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Museum location
Ground floor | Gallery 12 | India to AD 600 -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1994.95
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Glossary of terms
yaksha
Further reading
Ahuja, Naman, Art and Archaeology of Ancient India: Earliest Times to the Sixth Century (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2018), no. 102
Topsfield, Andrew, ‘Indian Art at the Ashmolean Museum’, Oriental Art, 43/4, (Winter 1997-1998), p. 28, illus. p. 25 fig. 6
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