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Kushan King, or Su-rya
a Kushan king
22. Statue of a Kushan king, or Su-rya, Mathura-, 2nd century A.D. H. 24", Mathura- Museum. After Zimmer, Heinrich, 1955, The Art of Indian Asia, Princeton, Bollingen, plate 60. (Archeological Survey of India, courtesy Mrs. A. K. Coomaraswamy). Note that John M. Rosenfield, in 1967, The Dynastic Art of the Kushans, Berkeley, Los Angeles, University of California Press, fig. 43 identifies the figure as Surya, while Zimmer identifies it as a king.

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