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Front view of a long jade-green sculpture of a collared figure wearing a tall headdress, which has a rectangular opening and swirls on the outer edges forming a curved top.
Side-view of a long jade-green sculpture depicting a collared figure’s head wearing a tall headdress. The headdress has three holds in the center and small snake figurines at the base.
Cream rectangular stone with a sculpted bull’s head emerging from the upper center. Its upper left is broken off. A brown crack runs vertically down the center.

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Yemen (Qataban Kingdom)

Stele with Bull’s Head,

ca. 400–1 BCE

Alabaster (calcite)

22.2 × 35.6 cm. (8 ¾ × 14 in.)

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund 84.150

Brown sculpture of two figures caressing each other. Both figures wear headdresses and minimal clothing. Various animals watch from below, and they are all situated on a platform.

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India

Shiva and Parvati, 1000s–1100s

Sandstone

64.0 × 41.0 × 25.5 cm. (25 3⁄16 ×

16 ⅛ × 10 1⁄16 in.)

Corporation Membership Fund 63.049

Painting of a blue robed figure facing a small robed figure. They are surrounded by cows of various colors and grass. Behind them is a tree with orange flowers and blue birds surrounding the leaves.

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India

Krishna and Rahda in a

Rainstorm, ca. 1690

Opaque watercolor on paper

25.4 × 18.4 cm. (10 × 7 ¼ in.)

Museum Works of Art Fund 42.268

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