Cleveland Museum of Art
Male Deity
- Date
- 925–50
- Medium
- sandstone
- Culture
- Cambodia, Koh Ker-Khleong style, 10th century
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 157340
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The distinctive swath of pleated cloth and the anchor-shaped ends of the lower garment suggest that this sculpture was made when this method of wrapping the sampot was fashionable. During that time, Cambodian temples were dedicated to Hindu deities, whose images were dramatically installed alone on a pedestal in a temple's sanctum. When consecrated, gold tokens were installed under the pedestal; many sculptures were broken when people toppled them to get the gold. This male deity seems to be striding with his left leg advanced subtly forward.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- 1968–1994: Private Collection, Europe | 1994: (John Eskenazi Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1994–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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