linga
- Museum number
- 1880.1634
- Description
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Linga. Pañcamukha with Nandi. Made of black stone.
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 6.10 centimetres
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Length: 7.60 centimetres (max)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition notes
- Perhaps from Fanny Parks via the India Museum.
In her Wanderings of a Pilgrim, which gives some account of her collection, Parks states: 'Naga Linga Nandi, carved in black marble; it represents Nandi the bull kneeling and supporting a Linga on his back, in the centre of which rise Siva's five heads, - four heads supporting the fifth, - over which protrudes the head of a snake. The exterior is beaded; a snake is within it, the tail of which nearly reaches the end of the figure. The scale is too small to allow of a distinct representation' Wanderings, I, 264.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1880.1634
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 636 (written in pencil on the bottom)