Head of a grimacing yaksha, or nature spirit

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Head of a grimacing yaksha, or nature spirit (EA1994.95, front )

© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (image)

Details

Title

Head of a grimacing yaksha, or nature spirit
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
Material index

sandstone
Technique index

carved
Object type

religious/ritual equipment;

figurine
Dimensions

25.5 x 25.3 x 11.5 cm (height x width x depth)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Purchased, 1994.
Museum location

Ground floor | Gallery 12 | India to AD 600
Museum department

Eastern Art
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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