Durga
Artist
JAVA
Date9th cent.
MediumBasalt
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineMuseum Collection
Object number2003.4.307 LA
DescriptionThe goddess Durga is about to dispatch the Asura (demon) Mahisa who emerges from a water buffalo, a form he had assumed. The eight-armed goddess wears an elaborate tiara girdles and jewels. In her upraised right arm she holds the discus. An oval nimbus appears behind her head.On View
Not on viewCollections
SADELER, Jan and Raphael, 1570-1630
BALI
ODISHA (FORMERLY ORISSA), INDIA
about 1970
not after 1918
1900's
late 19th c.
EGYPT
