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Source Description
This smiling female figure has her hair tied up to one side, wound around with an embroidered strip of cloth. She stands akimbo with her upper garment removed and tied in a loose looped knot at her side. A broad girdle holds up her clinging, diaphanous skirt. She has the ideal female form of a young mother, and since she holds a spear, she may have served a protective function.
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Document identity
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152129
label
Young Woman with a Spear
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152129
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object
title
Young Woman with a Spear
description
This smiling female figure has her hair tied up to one side, wound around with an embroidered strip of cloth. She stands akimbo with her upper garment removed and tied in a loose looped knot at her side. A broad girdle holds up her clinging, diaphanous skirt. She has the ideal female form of a young mother, and since she holds a spear, she may have served a protective function.
date
c. 50–200 CE
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79936283
genreSpecific
Ivory
imageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 9 x 4 x 1.7 cm (3 9/16 x 1 9/16 x 11/16 in.)
cul
Afghanistan, Begram, Kushan period
accession
1985.106
Source extras
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ivory
tombstone
Young Woman with a Spear, c. 50–200 CE. Afghanistan, Begram, Kushan period. Ivory; overall: 9 x 4 x 1.7 cm (3 9/16 x 1 9/16 x 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1985.106
collection
Indian Art - Kushan
citations
citation
Czuma, Stanislaw J., and Rekha Morris. <em>Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985.
page_number
Reproduced and mentioned: cat. no. 47D, pp. 119–120
citation
Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1985." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 73, no. 2 (1986): 26-71.
page_number
Mentioned: no. 200, pp. 35 and 70; Reproduced: no. 200, p. 39
citation
Hambly, Gavin.<em> Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage, and Piety</em>. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 5, p. 62
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 202
creditline
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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2026-05-29 07:51:49.038000
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152129
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Indian and Southeast Asian Art
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Indian Art - Kushan
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ivory
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