architecture;
sculpture
- Museum number
- 1805,0703.264
- Description
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Architectural fragment; part of temple frieze carved with human figures.
Fragment of a temple frieze in a coarse grey sandstone. The piece is carved on the front and side and has two offsets, indicating it formed the corner part of a temple wall. The carving on the right depicts two bearded ācāryas embracing a woman who has the penis of one of the men between her breasts. The carving on the left shows a bearded ācārya and a woman engaged in an acrobatic act of oral sex.
- Production date
- 11thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 45.50 centimetres
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Width: 75.50 centimetres
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Depth: 30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- M.633 from Museum Secretum register
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
10th Oct 2007-27th Jan 2008, 'Seduced: Art and Sex', Barbican Gallery, London
Sep 2020 - Jan 2021, BM, Room 35, "Tantra: enlightenment to revolution"
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Frontispiece of A discourse on the worship of Priapus (London, 1786) (see 2005.8-5.0.1)
- Acquisition date
- 1805
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1805,0703.264
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: G&R
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Miscellaneous number: M.633
