Archival Details

• Tradition: Gandhara
• Period: c. 200s–300s CE
• Medium: bronze
• Dimensions: Overall: 5 cm (1 15/16 in.)
• Credit line: Gift of Peter Marks
• Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1972.365

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.