Head of Buddha

This head would have been part of an unusually large image of Buddha cast during the Pala Dynasty in Eastern India.  His face has been rendered with a sublime contemplative expression, full bow-shaped mouth with outlined lips, straight nose, heavy downcast eyes recessed for inlay, simplified arched eyebrows, and circular urna (third eye) in relief on his forehead.  His ears have elongated pierced earlobes, and his hair is arranged in careful rows of snail-shell curls over the domed usnisa.