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Title: Mother Goddess
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, North India
Physical Description: This black terracotta is broken at the waste and depicts a simple body decorated with globs of clay decorated with punch-marked decorations. The face is modeled a bit more realistically with wide-open eyes and a full mouth. The front of her hair is in a series of rounded ball-like curls and a circular starburst decoration is at the top. The other oval globs frame the face of the goddess and cascade down what is left of her body.
Century: 1st century BCE-1st century CE
Object Creation Date: 1st century BCE - 1st century CE
Accession Number: 1981/2.148
Medium and Support: terracotta
relevance: rank 8.37150
Style/Group/Movement: terracotta

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 8.37150
Style/Group/Movement: terracotta

Title: Yakshi and attendant
Artist: Artist Unknown, India, North India
Physical Description: This broken fragment depicts a now headless goddess or yakshi standing with a much smaller male attendant. She wears a necklace, bracelets and a girdle consisting of three rows of small round shapes. She stands with her left hand at her waist and the right hand next to the head of her attendant. He wears a turban and large earrings and a belt of a single line of round shapes. They both wear diaphanous lower garments that make them appear nude with both of them with their genitals exposed. The fragment is broken above the male figure’s knees and below the yakshi’s knees.
Century: 2nd century
Object Creation Date: 2nd century
Accession Number: 1980/2.285
Medium and Support: terracotta
relevance: rank 8.27740
Style/Group/Movement: miniature terracotta

Title: From Northern India, figure of seated Ganesha on perforated cylinder (armature of wheeled toy deity).
Artist: Artist Unknown, India
Century: 4th-6th century
Object Creation Date: 4th century - 6th century
Accession Number: 1980/2.280
Medium and Support: terracotta
relevance: rank 8.27740
Style/Group/Movement: miniature terracotta