Archival Details

• Tradition: Gandhara
• Period: 100s CE
• Medium: schist
• Dimensions: Overall: 37.5 cm (14 3/4 in.)
• Credit line: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
• Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1980.15

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.