Cleveland Museum of Art

Standing Female Deity

Date

900s

Medium

stone

Culture

Cambodia, Angkor, Bakheng, 10th century

Department

Indian and Southeast Asian Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This four-armed deity wears a sarong skirt, with its pleated end folded over the belt, as was the fashionable Bakheng style during this period. The incised lines beneath the breasts indicated folds of flesh as marks of beauty. This figure relates to the sculptures of the Phnom Bakheng, a temple dedicated to Shiva.

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