Collection Online as of June 4, 2023
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Sandstone
Overall: 143.5 x 66 x 50.2 cm (56 1/2 x 26 x 19 3/4 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1973.106.a
not on view
This masterwork of early Cambodian sculpture shows the Hindu god Krishna effortlessly holding aloft a mountain to protect his fellow villagers and herds from torrential storms sent by a jealous old god. It is one of eight monumental monolithic figures recovered from a two-peaked mountain in the floodplains of the Mekong River delta, on the outskirts of the ancient urban center of Angkor Borei.