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Shiva with the Moon in his Hair
Also titled Shiva met de maan in het haar
c. 1000 - c. 1200
- Medium
- bronze (metal)
- Classification
- sculpture
- Dimensions
- height 40 cm x width 24 cm x depth 10.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (gift of Mr and Mrs Hülsmann-Stork, 1976)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
The god is making the abhaya mudra, or '˜fear not' gesture, with his front right hand and the varada mudra, the '˜wish granting' gesture, with his left. In his raised, rear hands he holds two of his attributes, an axe and a deer. These attributes are found only in images of Shiva from South India.
