# Serpent King (Nagaraja) Emerging from a Lotus

- By: Pakistan (Ancient region of Gandhara)
- Date: 2nd century
- Medium: Gray schist
- Classification: Sculpture
- Dimensions: 22.9 × 25 × 3 cm (9 × 9 13/16 × 1 3/16 in.)
- Culture: Gandhara
- Credit line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/153248)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/c0053aa8-cc0b-b756-7040-c964f138f0c6/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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