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Dancing Girl is a prehistoric bronze sculpture made in lost-wax casting about c. 2300 –1751 BC in the Indus Valley civilisation city of Mohenjo-daro (in modern-day Pakistan), [1] which was one of the earliest cities. The statue is 10.5 centimetres (4.1 in) tall, and depicts a nude young woman or girl with stylized ornaments, standing in a ...
Dancing Girl may refer to: "The Dancing Girl" (short story), an 1890 short story by the Japanese writer Mori Ogai; The Dancing Girl, a lost American 1915 silent film drama; Dancing Girl, a 1957 Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Shimizu; The Dancing Girl, an 1891 play by Henry Arthur Jones; Dancing Girl (Rabindranath Tagore), a 1905 painting by ...
Bronze sculpture: Dancing Girl from Mohenjo-daro belonging to the Harappan civilisation dating back to 2500 BCE is said to be the first bronze statue. [ 45 ] [ 46 ] Lost wax casting : a detailed, full-field photoluminescence study of a 6,000 year old copper "wheel" amulet from Mehrgarh in Balochistan has opened the door to many new facts about ...
The Dancing Girl" A bronze statuette dubbed the "Dancing Girl", 10.5 centimetres (4.1 in) high [43] and about 4,500 years old, was found in 'HR area' of Mohenjo-daro in 1926; it is now in the National Museum, New Delhi. [43] In 1973, British archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler described the item as his favorite statuette:
Dancing Girl engraving on a piece of red potsherd, discovered at Bhirrana Pottery graffiti at Bhirrana show "mermaid" type deities and dancing girls; [ web 1 ] the latter have a posture similar to Mohenjo-daro's bronze " dancing girls " that the archaeologist L.S. Rao stated that "it appears that the craftsman of Bhirrana had first-hand ...
Most famous among the objects is the Dancing Girl [23] made in Bronze, which belongs to the early Harappan period, Skeleton excavated from Rakhigarhi in Haryana, Terracotta images of Mother Goddess and Clay Pottery. Apart from these the gallery has Sculptures in Bronzes & Terracotta, Bone Objects, Ivory, Steatite, Semi-Precious Stones, Painted ...
According to a Pakistani archaeologist, Gandhi refused to return both the Priest-King and the other most iconic Indus sculpture, the Dancing Girl, a smaller bronze sculpture also found at Mohenjo-daro, and told Bhutto he could only choose one of them. [20] The over-size replica at the site
Female figurine. Mature Harappan period, 2700–2000 BCE. Indus civilization. National Museum, New Delhi. Indus Civilization pottery figure of horned deity. [1]The religion and belief system of the Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) people have received considerable attention, with many writers concerned with identifying precursors to the religious practices and deities of much later Indian ...