The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 18, 2024
Anthropomorph
c. 1500–1000 BCE
Overall: 23.5 x 36.5 x 0.5 cm (9 1/4 x 14 3/8 x 3/16 in.)
Location: 242A Ancient India
Did You Know?
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.- ?–2004(Bodhicitta, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)2004–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- "Art of Asia Acquired by North American Museums, 2003-2004." Archives of Asian Art 56 (2006): pp. 109-32. Reproduced: p. 113, fig. 8 www.jstor.org
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2004.31