Fragment of a terracotta panel with a painted multi-armed standing deity in red and orange, holding a trident, with a halo and a head behind.

Panel fragment with the god Shiva/Oesho

A broken terracotta panel shows a standing, multi-armed deity painted in red and orange gouache over pale clay. A trident is held in one upper hand, and a haloed head rises behind the central figure, with fragmentary painted edges.

Artist: Unknown
Date: ca. 3rd century CE
Medium: Terracotta, gouache
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size: 2928 × 3722 px

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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 305).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Isao Kurita, 2000

3rd century religious art gouache ancient sculpture shiva trident