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"tombstone": "Plaque with a Male Head, 100s CE. Pakistan, Gandhara, Kushan period. Gray schist; overall: 7 x 7 cm (2 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Mrs. Severance A. Millikin, 1989.346",
"current_location": "242A Ancient India",
"title": "Plaque with a Male Head",
"creation_date": "100s CE",
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"department": "Indian and Southeast Asian Art",
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"measurements": "Overall: 7 x 7 cm (2 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.)",
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"id": 309889,
"title": "Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India",
"description": "Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 13, 1985-January 5, 1986).",
"opening_date": "1985-11-13T05:00:00"
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"title": "The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection",
"description": "The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990).",
"opening_date": "1990-07-05T04:00:00"
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"description": "(Ulrich von Schroeder [b. 1943], Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland, sold to Severance and Greta Millikin)",
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"date": "?\u20131977",
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"description": "Severance A. [1895\u20131985] and Greta [Marguerite Steckerl] Millikin [1903\u20131989], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"date": "1977\u20131989",
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"date": "1989\u2013",
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"description": "This small schist plaque is decorated with the bust of a man. It may have been used in several different ways\u2014for example, like the roundels with highly projecting heads that have been reproduced by Marshall as door knockers, reverse sides of hand mirrors, and so on. Although they are made of bronze, this does not preclude that this schist plaque may have been set in a metal mount. There is also a precedence for objects of this type among the Begram plaster emblemata and terracottas, which may have served for making molds in clay, from which the metal sculpture was then made. There is even a chance that the object may have been used as a lid on a vessel and that the projecting head of the image would serve as a handle. The bust is that of a middle-aged man with his hair pulled up in a chignon. His broad face reveals the somewhat pudgy, coarse features of a well-to-do individual. He wears a scarf around his neck, tied in a knot with loosely hanging ends, the same as one finds on some sculptures of attendants of Buddha in Mathura. This seems to imply either a secular personage or possibly a Bodhisattva. The bottom edge of the bust is decorated with a bead pattern.",
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"citation": "Czuma, Stanislaw J., and Rekha Morris. Kushan Sculpture: Images from Early India. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1985.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 77, pp. 159\u2013160",
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"citation": "Sengupta, Arputha Rani. Buddhist Jewels in Mortuary Cult: Magic Symbols. Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan, 2019.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: Vol. 1, P. 101-103, fig. 2.67",
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