Mathura: Head of a Buddha
Red sandstone
Mathura: Head of a Buddha
INDIA, Uttar Pradesh, Mathura
This head was unearthed from Mathura. Unlike later statues depicting Sakyamuni, in this Kushan head from Chaubara, Mathura, the hair is completely smooth and the usnisa is piled in a double whorl incised with fine lines. The eyebrows are almost joined except for the circular depression of a missing urna between them, which may once have been inlaid with a gemstone. The contours of the eyes are unusually pronounced and the full lips have a slight upward curve. The dimensions of the head suggest that the original statue must have been larger than life-sized.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 693.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Mathura: Head of a Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 693.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Mathura: Head of a Buddha" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:693.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Mathura: Head of a Buddha. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 693).
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