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DOI article:Sieradzki, Wojciech: Yaksha or not Yaksha?
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18860#0142
2. Figure of a standing monkey, inv. no. 149119 MN, Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe (phot, by
the author)
The fifth relic :
5. exc. inv. No. IM-190-1937, height 0,064 m (fig. 7) represents the head of a monkey together
with the right arm and the upper part of the body.
The sculptures of this group are characteristic for their naturalistic plasticity. They have
salient chins and slightly open, strongly protruding mouths. Wrinkles on the cheeks are marked
very clearly. The images have strongly flattened snouts and deep eye-hollows. The eyes were
made by means of a double contour with round hollows as the pupils. Above the arched eyebrows
there is hair marked with cuts going from forehead towards the back of the head. The fifth of
the discussed relics has a smoothly modelled arm in a gesture of eating. The fingers were marked
with cuts. All these relics are dated to the period of the III—II century B.C. '.
The other group is composed of five following relics :
1. The image coming from Sari Dheri4 (fig. 9, exc. inv. No. IS-69-1951, dimensions: height
0,063 m, width 0,050 m) represents a smoothly modelled monkey, sitting on short, thick legs
and leaning on a similarly thick and short tail. Male sexual features were marked. The body is
3. Dated on the basis of the inventory of the Indian Section in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
4. Provenience and dating as above.
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the author)
The fifth relic :
5. exc. inv. No. IM-190-1937, height 0,064 m (fig. 7) represents the head of a monkey together
with the right arm and the upper part of the body.
The sculptures of this group are characteristic for their naturalistic plasticity. They have
salient chins and slightly open, strongly protruding mouths. Wrinkles on the cheeks are marked
very clearly. The images have strongly flattened snouts and deep eye-hollows. The eyes were
made by means of a double contour with round hollows as the pupils. Above the arched eyebrows
there is hair marked with cuts going from forehead towards the back of the head. The fifth of
the discussed relics has a smoothly modelled arm in a gesture of eating. The fingers were marked
with cuts. All these relics are dated to the period of the III—II century B.C. '.
The other group is composed of five following relics :
1. The image coming from Sari Dheri4 (fig. 9, exc. inv. No. IS-69-1951, dimensions: height
0,063 m, width 0,050 m) represents a smoothly modelled monkey, sitting on short, thick legs
and leaning on a similarly thick and short tail. Male sexual features were marked. The body is
3. Dated on the basis of the inventory of the Indian Section in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
4. Provenience and dating as above.
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