Linga with One Face (""Ekamukhalinga"")

ca. 500 CE

10.8 cm 18.4 cm 14.2 cm

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The face of the Hindu god Shiva emerges from this "linga," the “sign” or emblem through which he is most commonly worshiped. Most lingas are non-figural in form, their abstracted phallic shape alluding to Shiva’s transcendent power and generative energy. Here, Shiva is also re...

Sculpture

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Subhash Kapoor, Temple Art, New York City; purchased by John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore, 1983; given to Walters Art Museum, 2003.
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