Archival Details

• Tradition: Mathura
• Period: 100s CE
• Medium: sandstone
• Dimensions: Overall: 11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.)
• Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Eleanor Everett in memory of Mr. Morris Everett
• Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1993.240

The Mathura school of sculpture flourished in North India, centered on the city of Mathura, from roughly the 1st century BCE onward. Carved characteristically in local red sandstone, it produced Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu imagery and is noted for its distinct indigenous idiom, developing in parallel with Gandharan sculpture further northwest.