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Mogao Caves: Mahakasyapa

CHINA, Gansu, Dunhuang; Northern Wei dynasty (386–534); Clay; H: 91 cm; State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
This statue is thought to be from Mogao Cave 442. Mahakasyapa wears a monastic robe with incised folds that leaves much of the chest bare. He is portrayed as old and wrinkled, the thick neck giving way to an emaciated body with narrow shoulders, and he stands with palms joined in reverence. Damage to the surface reveals that straw and grains of sand are mixed into the clay of which the statue is composed.

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