Dancing Girl is a prehistoric bronze sculpture made in lost-wax casting about c. 2300–1751 BC in the Indus Valley Civilisation city of Mohenjo-daro (in modern-day Pakistan), which was one of the earliest cities. The statue is 10.5 centimetres (4.1 in) tall, and depicts a nude young woman or girl with stylized ornaments, standing in a confident, naturalistic pose. Dancing Girl is highly regarded as a work of art.
In 2016, a Pakistani barrister, Javed Iqbal Jaffery, petitioned the Lahore High Court for the return of the statue, claiming that it had been “taken from Pakistan 60 years ago on the request of the National Arts Council in Delhi but never returned”. According to him, the Dancing Girl was to Pakistan what Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was to Europe. However, no public request to India has been made by the Pakistani government.
In 1973, British archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler described the item as his favourite statuette:
She’s about fifteen years old I should think, not more, but she stands there with bangles all the way up her arm and nothing else on. A girl perfectly, for the moment, perfectly confident of herself and the world. There’s nothing like her, I think, in the world.
Prince Andrew would be proud.
Honestly reminded me of that one sketch in Epsteins birthday book by that one guy
How can people guess the age of the portrayed girl just by looking at the statuette? or is there more contextual information?
I’m not sure. But there’s very little information around this.
Breast size might be a factor if its by looks alone. Or the body shape more generally.
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Since the Indus valley script is undeciphered to this day. Theres no context to be had.
I presume it was a combination of poetic licence and an experts guess.