Archival Details

• Tradition: Gandhara
• Period: 1–100 CE
• Medium: schist
• Dimensions: Overall: 16.5 x 53 cm (6 1/2 x 20 7/8 in.)
• Credit line: Dudley P. Allen Fund
• Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1930.328.2

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.