Dimensions: Height 4,8 cm Wide 3,2 cm Depth 2 cm

Weight: 48,5 grams

A miniature stone image of Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu deity, carved in the round. The god is shown seated in a compact posture, with his rounded belly emphasized and his trunk curving downward. Despite the small scale, the sculptor has indicated key features of the god’s iconography: large ears, a circular halo behind the head, and faint traces of ornaments across the torso and limbs. The dark stone surface reveals subtle red pigment residues, likely remnants of ritual offering or consecration.

Ganesha, revered as the remover of obstacles and patron of wisdom, was a favored subject for both monumental and miniature sculpture across medieval India. Small portable figures such as this were intended for private devotion, carried by devotees or placed in household shrines. Their intimate scale made them objects of personal worship, often touched, anointed, and ritually fed with offerings, which explains the softened contours and traces of color seen here.