Cleveland Museum of Art
Section from a Portable Shrine
- Date
- 100s CE
- Medium
- gray schist
- Culture
- Pakistan, Gandhara, Kushan period
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Figures of deities who protect children are featured in this relief carving. A form of Skanda holding a bird and a flower stands next to a regal yakshi with pointed rodent or elephant ears. A diminutive figure who may be a child is shown kneeling at his feet. Above, the six-headed mother goddess Shashthi sits next to Skanda, holding the spear.
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