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Young Woman with a Spear

c. 50–200 CE
ivory
Overall: 9 x 4 x 1.7 cm (3 9/16 x 1 9/16 x 11/16 in.)
Weight: 25.1 g (0.89 oz.)
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1985.106
Location: not on view
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Description

This smiling female figure has her hair tied up to one side, wound around with an embroidered strip of cloth. She stands akimbo with her upper garment removed and tied in a loose looped knot at her side. A broad girdle holds up her clinging, diaphanous skirt. She has the ideal female form of a young mother, and since she holds a spear, she may have served a protective function.
Young Woman with a Spear

Young Woman with a Spear

c. 50–200 CE

Afghanistan, Begram, Kushan period

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