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More model informationThis capital in the shape of a winged lion dates to the Kushan period, ca. AD 100 to 200, and was made of sandstone. It is from Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, in northern India. According to the object label:
This was the capital of a pillar framing the entrance to a sacred enclosure, perhaps a shrine to the Hindu deity Balarama. The tail seems to be shaped like a ploughshare, the attribute of Balarama, who may originally have been an agricultural deity.
This sculpture was 3D scanned at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, England, with a Structure Scanner attached to an iPad Mini 4. Because of the height of the sculpture, the very top was inadequately 3D scanned.
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