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Title: Head of a ram
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Bengal
Physical Description: This terracotta is modeled in the shape of a ram’s head. The snout is softly modeled by hand and his two horns form coils to either side of his head. A decorative band with punch-marked floral decoration on it divides the snout from the area of the head with the spiral horns. The horns are decorated with lines and encircle a donut shaped element in the center. A floral motif is between the two above the decorative band and other punch-marked floral forms decorate his snout at the top and at each cheek. His eyes are incised in a diamond pattern with a circular center and his nostrils are simple indentations.
Century: 1st century
Object Creation Date: 1st century
Accession Number: 1980/2.283
Medium and Support: terracotta
relevance: rank 23.63616
Creation Place 3: West Bengal (state)

Title: Vishnu Stele, four-armed Vishnu with two of his attributes personified
Artist: Artist Unknown
Physical Description: Vishnu stand in a strict unbending pose, samabhanga and has four hands. Reading clockwise from the front right hand, he holds lotus, a club, a discus and a conch. The lotus and conch are also personified with full standing figures at the base below his tow front hands, the lotus as a female figure to his right and the conch as a male figure to his left. On the pointed arch behind the figure a flying figure holding garlands is carved in shallow relief to either side of his crown. He wears a diaphanous lower cloth, the folds of the garment are articulated with a flared section down the center. He wears a long garland down to his knees, a sacred thread and various pieces of jewelry, including bracelets, armlets, a necklace and large earrings and an elaborate crown.
Century: 10th century
Object Creation Date: circa 10th century
Accession Number: 2003/1.385
Medium and Support: black schist
relevance: rank 23.63616
Creation Place 3: West Bengal (state)

Title: Uma-Maheshvara, a seated Shiva and Parvati (Uma)
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Bengal
Physical Description: Shiva sits with his consort on a double lotus pedestal. He has six arms, his right three are in varada mudra [a giving gesture], holds a rosary and an arrow. His left arms cup his consorts left breast and hold a lotus flower and a bow. He sits in royal ease, with one leg pendant. He wears bracelets, armlets, necklaces, earrings, and a sacred thread that stretches form his left shoulder down past his waist. On his head he wears an elaborate jatamukuta, a crown interlaced with his matted locks. Parvati sits upon his knee with one leg tucked under her and the other pendant. She is also adorned with jewelry, but wears a more modest diadem at the front of her head.
Century: 12th century
Object Creation Date: 12th century
Accession Number: 1964/2.85
Medium and Support: bronze
relevance: rank 23.63616
Creation Place 3: West Bengal (state)

Title: Figure of a Goddess holding a sword in her left hand and a jewel in her right hand
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, Bengal
Century: 17th-18th century
Object Creation Date: 17th century - 18th century
Accession Number: 1976/2.57
Medium and Support: bronze
relevance: rank 23.63616
Creation Place 3: West Bengal (state)

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