id:			142033
accession number:	1965.557
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updated:		2020-06-04 09:00:50.116000

Surya, the Sun God, early 8th Century. India, Kashmir, early 8th Century. Brass; overall: 50.4 cm (19 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katharine Holden Thayer 1965.557

title:				Surya, the Sun God
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creation date:			early 8th Century
creation date earliest:		700
creation date latest:		725
current location:		237 Himalayan
creditline:			Gift of Katharine Holden Thayer
copyright:			

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culture:	India, Kashmir, early 8th Century
technique:	brass
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 50.4 cm (19 13/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions
	opening date:   1966-09-10T04:00:00
	<i>Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(William H. Wolff [1906-1991], New York, NY, sold to Katharine Holden Thayer [1898-1985] for gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1965
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1965-present
	date: 1965-
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wall 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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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 231
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n255

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 231
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n255

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 293
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n313

	Klimburg-Salter, Deborah E., and Maximilian Klimburg. The Silk Route and the Diamond Path: Esoteric Buddhist Art on the Trans-Himalayan Trade Routes. Los Angeles, Calif: Published under the sponsorship of the UCLA Art Council, 1982.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 108, pl. 39
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