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Anthropomorph

c. 1500–1000 BCE

India, Bronze Age

Medium
copper
Measurements
Overall: 23.5 x 36.5 x 0.5 cm (9 1/4 x 14 3/8 x 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 2004.31
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Location
242A Ancient India
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Most of these mysterious objects were discovered in the plain regions of the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers of northern India.

Description

Among the few works of art known from the first millennium BC in India, anthropomorphs such as this fine example have an abstract formal appeal, but their meaning and function remain mysterious. They were made during the approximately 1,500-year long period of time between the protohistoric Indus Valley civilization, which flourished between about 2,800–1,800 BC, and the Maurya period (322–187 BC), when works of art must have been made in perishable materials that no longer survive.
A flat, copper abstract humanlike shape bears splotchy brown and green corrosion. The figure's legs spread apart, and a semicircular head merges with two outstretched arms that curl down at the ends.

Anthropomorph

c. 1500–1000 BCE

India, Bronze Age

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