Cleveland Museum of Art
Fertility Goddess
- Date
- 100s CE
- Medium
- terracotta
- Culture
- Pakistan, Gandhara, reportedly Charsada, early Kushan period
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Female figures fashioned from terracotta were found at large man-made pools of water in early Buddhist sacred compounds. They indicate the importance of art and rites associated with fertility and childbirth among the Buddhist laity, of which women were a major component. The wreath, small breasts, and gentle modeling of her full-hipped body associate this figure with Greco-Roman imagery.
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