Cleveland Museum of Art
Double-Faced Crossbar from a Railing: Male Worshipper (recto)
- Date
- c. 150 BCE
- Medium
- plum-colored sandstone
- Culture
- India, Madhya Pradesh, Bharhut, Shunga period
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
A well-dressed male figure, probably a nature divinity known as a yaksha , presses his hands together in a gesture of veneration in the center of the lotus medallion. An inscription in Brahmi script states that this section of the railing was the gift of a man named Mitra.
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