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Vishnu

650–99

Cambodia

Medium
gray sandstone
Measurements
Overall: 87 cm (34 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1942.562
Public Domain
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Location
243 Indian and Southeast Asian
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The god wears a short garment (sampot) tied to form a loop on the left with the hanging ends on the right thigh.

Description

The muscular physique, sensitive smile, and flat-topped high crown are characteristics of Vishnu images made during the pre-Angkorian period (c. 550–802) in Cambodia. This sculpture probably was the sole object of worship in a small brick temple sanctum.
Full body statue of the god Vishnu, with a cylindrical crown on his head and wearing a sampot, a short wrap with carved lines indicating its loop around the waist. Bare-chested, his right arm is broken at the shoulder, left at the wrist, right leg at the ankle, and left at the knee. His eyes are carved in outline, nose broken away and right side of the face worn.

Vishnu

650–99

Cambodia

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