Dancing Saptamatrikas

Unknown (Indian)

Item type:

sculpture

Date of creation:

11th century

Height:

43.0 cm  (16 15/16 in.)

Width:

66.0 cm  (26 in.)

Technique / Medium:

sandstone

Description

The panel, perhaps the architrave of the main door of a temple, shows seven dancing figures (the so-called "Seven Mothers") wearing a drape and adorned with jewels in company with the gods Vinadhara and Ganesha. In the upper zone of the panel, eight musicians; in the lower zone, the vehicles of the deities. Among the instruments we can recognize only four barrel-shaped drums.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Barrel drum [2504]

RIdIM record id

3155