Weiner Mihályné szerk.: Az Iparművészeti Múzeum Évkönyvei 10. (Budapest, 1967)

HOPP FERENC MÚZEUM - MUSÉE FERENC HOPP - Horváth, Vera: Maurya Mother Goddess Figurines

hair-dos, not considering the difference in their size, the six figurines belong together, they represent the same woman. When the place of these pieces of art among Indian sculpture is scrutinized, the statues should be compared first with the terracotta female figurines of the Indus Culture, the statue of the Mother Goddess. The known findings of the Indus Culture have no such figurines of a female which reveal any close ties with these little statues. The statues of Mother Goddess in Indus Culture are made of pinkish-red, or red baked engobe clay. The profile of the face is bird-like, the nose is pressed by two fingers, the eyes and the mouth are applied clay pellets, with fan-like hair-do, or head-dress. As pointed out by Wheeler

1 old rules of tradition prevailed when the Mother Goddess was illustrated, because, in North West India, during the entire cultural period, this type of statute did not undergo any changes. Fig. 2. I fead of a woman 1 R. E. M. Wheeler, The Indus Civilization, 1953. (Cambridge) 83.