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Lintel with Garuda

875–925

Cambodia

Medium
sandstone
Measurements
Overall: 52.6 x 118.1 x 17.8 cm (20 11/16 x 46 1/2 x 7 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1967.37
Public Domain
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Location
243 Indian and Southeast Asian
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In the foliage below the Garuda are two tiny female figures, the one on the left badly damaged.

Description

Garuda is half man, half eagle, and the mount of Vishnu. His nose is beaklike, and his wings are carved in an exuberant foliate manner, like the swirling leaves that grow from the stem that arches across the middle of the panel. The vegetation yields female figures and jewels before it resolves itself into the heads of a cobra. Garuda is the natural enemy of the serpents, so he holds their tails in check. This decorative lintel is carved in the style of those made for a temple dedicated to the past kings of the Khmer territories. Derived from India’s use of purifying life-affirming imagery around doorways, this Garuda lintel has been rendered in a distinctively Khmer style.
Rectangular pale brown sandstone panel with, on the left, Garuda, a god half human and half eagle, as signified by a beaklike nose and winding, leaf-like wings extending across the background of the panel. Garuda holds the tail of a serpent, extending out and splitting into three heads looking out, teeth bared, on our right. Below Garuda sit two figures amongst the foliage, the one on our left mostly broken away.

Lintel with Garuda

875–925

Cambodia

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