Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.139

c12.139

A second sculpture (in grey limestone) from the same city must also be taken into consideration: it is a dancing figure in which the head has been affixed separately with metal pegs, the arms and legs are also designed to be in more than one piece similarly held together, and the nipples are inlaid in some sort of plaster. The sandstone torso too has had inlaid nipples originally, as well as discs on the shoulders and a separate attached head. The technique of the sculpture differs in the two figures, the dancing figure showing facets and striations absent in the evenly rounded contours of the torso: it seems unlikely that they are by the same hand.