Archival Details

• Tradition: Gandhara
• Period: 200–400 CE
• Medium: bronze
• Dimensions: Diameter: 8.6 cm (3 3/8 in.); Overall: 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)
• Credit line: Edward L. Whittemore Fund
• Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1976.71.a

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.