Head of the Buddha

Unidentified Mathura School, Kushan Dynasty maker

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144-241

Gray schist

Overall: 15 in. (38.1 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Anonymous gift in honor of D. H. Beskind, Class of 1936

S.960.105.1

Geography

Place Made: Pakistan, South Asia, Asia

Period

1-500

Object Name

Ceremonial Artifact

Research Area

Asia

Not on view

Inscriptions

Not signed.

Course History

ASCL 51.06/REL 41.07, Buddhism Sex, Gender in South East Asia, Sara Swenson, Spring 2022

HIST 96.01, Colonialism and Culture in Asia and Africa, Douglas Haynes, Spring 2022

REL 43.01, Buddhism in America, Reiko Ohnuma, Spring 2022

Provenance

Anonymous donor; given to present collection, 1960.

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