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Panel with the god Shiva/Oesho and worshiper

Period:
Kushan
Date:
ca. 3rd century A.D.
Geography:
Bactria
Culture:
Kushan
Medium:
Terracotta, gouache
Dimensions:
22-1/2 x 21 x 1-1/4 in. (57.2 x 53.3 x 5.7 cm)
52 lbs
Classification:
Ceramics-Paintings
Credit Line:
Purchase, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gift, 2000
Accession Number:
2000.42.3
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 405
By 1932, collection of Yamanaka & Co., Osaka; acquired by the Museum in 2000, purchased from Isao Kurita, Japan.

“Glimpses of the Silk Road: Central Asia in the First Millennium.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, August 5, 2002–December 31, 2010.

Yamanaka Shōkai. 1932. Sekai kobijutsu tenrankai. Ōsaka: Yamanaka Shōkai, fig. 8.

Carter, Martha L. 1995. "Oesho and Shiva." Bulletin of the Asia Institute 9, pp. 143-157.

Carter, Martha L. 1997. "Preliminary Notes on Four Painted Terracotta Panels." South Asian Archaeology 1995: proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, Cambridge, 5-9 July, 1995, edited by Raymond Allchin and Bridget Allchin. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., pp. 573-588.

Aruz, Joan. 2000. "Votive panels." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 58 (2), Recent Acquisitions: A Selection 1999-2000 (Autumn 2000), p. 15.

Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2000. "Departmental Accessions: Ancient Near East." Annual Report of the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, No. 130 (Jul. 1,1999 - Jun. 30, 2000), p. 9.

Behrendt, Kurt A. 2007. The Art of Gandhara in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven: Yale University Press, p. 84, note 40.

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Central and North Asia, 1-500A.D.

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