Cleveland Museum of Art

Coin with Figure of an Archer (reverse)

Date

c. 400 CE

Medium

gold

Culture

India, Chandragupta II, Gupta Period, late 4th-early 5th century

Department

Indian and Southeast Asian Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The rulers of the Gupta dynasty unified northern India under native rule for the first time since the Maurya empire (323-185 bc). The Guptas named themselves after Chandragupta, the founder of the Maurya dynasty. This coin of Chandragupta II, who ruled from around ad 380 to 415, depicts a divine archer holding a bow and arrow. On the reverse is the Indian goddess of good fortune, Shri, seated on a lotus.

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