Indian Sculpture c8.26

c8.26

). Fragment of a seal from Mohenjo-Daro. Tree, female divinity and combined animal.179 No fight and no hero are shown on this seal, but a tree with feathery twigs, a female figure, powerfully modelled (abdomen and thighs), with horns, hoofed legs and a long tail, and a combined animal with feathery horns. The tree bends towards the superhuman figure; the latter repeats and accentuates its movement, while with one arm she takes hold of the animal, which in its turn—furthermost outpost and strongest flexion of the same movement—by rising on the hind legs and turning back its head, concludes the composition. The powerful naturalism of the female figure is akin to that of the red statuette from Harappa (Fig. 1).