Gandhara region, probably Taxila: Terra Cotta Head, ca. late fourth to fifth century CE; terra cotta. Gift of Dr. W. P. Jacocks.

CHAPEL HILL, NC.- The Ackland Art Museum presents Fashioning The Divine - South Asian Sculpture, on view through March 25, 2007. The South Asian sculpture collection at the Ackland Art Museum offers glimpses into the richness and variety of sculptural traditions that flourished in the Indian subcontinent. The works range from the early centuries of the Common Era to the efflorescence of highly elaborate Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain temple complexes in the medieval period. Geographically, the objects span a region the size of Europe, including fragments from Buddhist stupas and temples, from the mountainous northwestern region of ancient Gandhara (primarily modern Pakistan and Afghanistan) and monumental granite figures that one adorned Hindu temples along the lush, green Kaveri delta in central Tamil Nadu at the southernmost periphery of India. (courtesy www.Artdily.org)