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Anthropomorph
c. 1500–1000 BC
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: Anthropomorph
- Date Created: c. 1500–1000 BC
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 23.5 x 36.5 x 0.5 cm (9 1/4 x 14 3/8 x 3/16 in.)
- Provenance: (Bodhicitta, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2004.31
- Medium: copper
- Fun Fact: Most of these mysterious objects were discovered in the plain regions of the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers of northern India.
- Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Culture: India, Bronze Age
- Credit Line: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
- Collection: Indian Art
- Accession Number: 2004.31
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