Serpent King (Nagaraja) Emerging from a Lotus

Pakistan (Ancient region of Gandhara)

2nd century

Medium

Gray schist

Classification

Sculpture

Dimensions

22.9 × 25 × 3 cm (9 × 9 13/16 × 1 3/16 in.)

Culture

Gandhara

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia

Credit line

Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Sculpture
• Flowers and plants
• History
• 2nd century
• Black, white and grey