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Surya, the Sun God
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| Title |
Surya, the Sun God |
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| Description |
Surya wears a long tunic and boots suitable for riding horses across the grassland steppes of Central Asia. The sun god was of paramount power among the people of Central and Western Asia who followed religions such as Zoroastrianism, a pre-Islamic faith emphasizing a sacred duality between light and dark. When the image of the sun god began to be made in India from the 100s BC on, he is shown in the dress of the people who revered him the most. Surya is worshipped throughout the Indian subcontinent and Himalayan regions of Kashmir and Nepal alongside both Hindu and Buddhist deities. |
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| Date | 700 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Brass | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Overall: 50.4 cm (19 13/16 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Indian and South East Asian Art |
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| Accession number |
1965.557 |
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| Place of creation | India, Kashmir, early 8th Century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Gift of Katharine Holden Thayer | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.557 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. |
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This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project with the Cleveland Museum of Art. See the Open Access at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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| current | 10:33, 21 January 2019 | | 1,873 × 3,400 (2.57 MB) | Madreiling | pattypan 18.02 |
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