Archival Details

• Tradition: Gandhara
• Period: late 100s CE
• Medium: schist
• Dimensions: Overall: 132.4 cm (52 1/8 in.)
• Credit line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
• Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1965.476

Gandharan sculpture developed in the ancient region spanning present-day northern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan, roughly 1st–5th century CE, and is known for blending Greco-Roman stylistic conventions with Buddhist subject matter. Grey schist is a common medium, and the tradition produced some of the earliest anthropomorphic images of the Buddha.