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Head of Buddha Image
Keywords : Head of Buddha image , The national museum Ratchaburi
| Site common name | Ratchaburi National Museum |
|---|---|
| Type of artwork | Sculpture |
| Sub district | Na Mueang |
| District | Mueang Ratchaburi |
| Province | Ratchaburi |
| Region | West |
| Country | Thailand |
| Geographic Coordinates Decimal degree | Lat : 13.541037 Long : 99.817664 |
| Geographic Coordinates UTM | Zone : 47 P Hemisphere : N E : 588475.33 N : 1497116.04 |
| Place of artwork | In the exhibition hall |
| History of production | The exact age of the head is unknown, but its artistic characteristics signify that it could be built in the Dvaravati period. |
|---|---|
| Production process | Stone carving |
| Art | The head of Buddha Image has a round face, broad forehead with connected eyebrows. The Buddha also has protuberant eyes looking down towards the floor; a huge nose; protruding lips; short and tight ringlet curls; and a Uṣṇīṣa shown as a cranial protuberance. There is a hole in the Uṣṇīṣa which possibly used to be decorated with an aureole made of gemstone or might be the space for enshrining Śarīra or relics of the Buddha. |
| Key academic information | This is an ideal example of the heads of Buddha Image in Dvaravati style. |
| Notice | Discovered at Phrasirattanamahathat Temple in Ratchaburi Province. |
| Period | Historical Period |
| Art period | Dvaravati |
| Age | 12th-16th Buddhist century |
| Religion | Buddhism |
| Sect | Theravada |
| Religion and belief | Theravada |
| Type of License | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) |
|---|---|
| Rights | Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre |
| Date of record creation | 2015-08-19 |
| Record creator | Rungroj Thamrungraeng |
| Bibliography | ผาสุข อินทราวุธ, ทวารวดี การศึกษาเชิงวิเคราะห์จากหลักฐานทางโบราณคดี. กรุงเทพฯ : อักษรสมัย, 2542. ศักดิ์ชัย สายสิงห์, ศิลปะทวารวดี วัฒนธรรมพุทธศาสนายุคแรกเริ่มในดินแดนไทย. กรุงเทพฯ : เมืองโบราณ, 2547. |
