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Head of Demon

HADB 175Inv. KM 62.3.385Tapa Kalān
Tapa KalānFigureStuccoModelling
Figure in Stucco: Head of Demon, Tapa Kalān, Hadda
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Photo by Jules Barthoux ©GrandPalaisRmn - Guimet Museum

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Tapa Kalān

Location

Tapa Kalān68

Description

This demon with a human face has bristly hair in the form of flames, girded by a wide band. The exorbitant eyes, without eyelids, give it a hallucinated aspect. Two boar's tusks protrude from the mouth. The earlobes are deformed.

Characteristics

Technique

Modelling

Material

Stucco

Object type

Figure

Site

Tapa Kalān - 68

Conservation location

National Museum of Afghanistan

Museum inventory No.

KM 62.3.385

Traces of polychromy

No

Restoration

No restoration

Bibliographic References

TISSOT Francine

2006

P. 454, K.p. Ha. 1280.347-Catalogue of the National Museum of Afghanistan (1931 – 1985)

MIZUNO Seiichi

1963

P. 165-The Ancient Art of Afghanistan

BARTHOUX Jules

1930

Pl. 99 e-Les Fouilles de Haḍḍa, Figures et Figurines

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