Makara, Cambodia

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Mark Cartwright
by Vassil
published on 15 December 2016
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A makara, the decorative sea-monster motif common in Hindu architecture, especially, as here, above doorways. Cambodia, 1st-7th century.

Musée Guimet, Paris.

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