Linga with Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga), Shahi period, 9th century, Afghanistan, White marble, H. 22 7/16 in. (57 cm); W. 13 3/16 in. (33.5 cm), Sculpture, The linga, the aniconic pillar symbol emblematic of the Hindu god Shiva, symbolizes his essential generative powers. Here, the form is phallic, addorsed with Shiva’s face in a style reflecting iconographic innovations of the region as well as inherited design conventions from fifth-and sixth-century Gupta north India
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