Title: Shiva as Vanquisher of the Three Cities (Shiva Tripuravijaya)
Object type: Figure
Date: ca. 1000–1020
Culture: South India (Tamil Nadu, Thanjavur district)
Period: Chola period
Medium: Copper alloy
Dimensions: H. 22 1/2 in. (57.2 cm); W. 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm); D. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm)
Classification: Sculpture
Credit line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace and The Vincent Astor Foundation Gifts, funds from various donors, Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions Fund for Asian Art, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation and Harris Brisbane Dick Funds, Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Chilton Jr. Gift, Oscar L. Tang Fund for Asian Art, Fletcher Fund, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions Fund, Eliot and Wilson Nolen Gift, and Seymour Fund; Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness Fund, Bequests of Bernard M. Baruch and Mary Strong Shattuck, Gifts of George D. Pratt and Mrs. Lewis S. Wolff, from the Estate of Dorothea Wolff, and Rogers Fund, by exchange, 2018
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY