Pendant with Shri (c. 100s CE): Art, History and Details

Pendant with Shri (c. 100s CE) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

A conflation of local and Hellenistic divinities, this goddess exemplifies abundance and prosperity. Like Tyche, she holds a cornucopia, overflowing with fruits and bounty, but it is in the form of a lotus flower, associated with the local Indian goddess of good fortune, Shri. To further emphasize this association, she holds a lotus flower in her right hand as well.

Object facts

• Title: Pendant with Shri
• Date: c. 100s CE
• Culture: Pakistan, Gandhara, Sirkap, Kushan period
• Type: Jewelry
• Technique: gold repoussé and carnelian
• Dimensions: Diameter: 5 cm (1 15/16 in.)
• Collection: Indian Art - Kushan, Gandhara
• Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
• Accession number: 1953.14

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• “Art and Archaeology at the Cleveland Museum of Art.” Archaeology, vol. 6, no. 4, 1953, pp. 195–202.
• Ward, William E. “Gold Pendant from Sirkap.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 41, no. 8, 1954, pp. 192–193, 195.
• Rowland, Benjamin. Hellenistic Art in Asia: A Loan Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, December 28, 1954 - February 15, 1955. Cambridge, MA: The Museum, 1954.

View the collection record

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