Anthropomorph
c. 1500–1000 BCE
- Medium
- copper
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- Overall: 23.5 x 36.5 x 0.5 cm (9 1/4 x 14 3/8 x 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- India, Bronze Age
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
