Mathura: Head of a Buddha
Red sandstone
佛頭像
印度北方邦秣菟羅恰木達蒂拉出土
印度北方邦秣菟羅恰木達蒂拉（Chamunda Tila, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh）出土。佛頭造型呈現出笈多王朝（約320～550）秣菟羅樣式的典型特徵，如一圈圈排列整齊的右旋螺髮、拉長的矩形耳垂與頸部的三道紋等。
佛臉形橢圓，未刻白毫，可能曾以顏料描繪。纖細上挑的長眉、低垂的眼瞼、人中及豐厚的下唇，均以凸起的棱線刻劃。面容雖已按照佛三十二相而呈固定模式，但仍具備印度人的相貌特點。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 694.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Mathura: Head of a Buddha." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 694.
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, 11:694.
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. 694).
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