Archival Details

• Tradition: Gandhara
• Period: c. 100 CE
• Medium: schist with traces of gold
• Dimensions: Overall: 23.8 x 29.2 cm (9 3/8 x 11 1/2 in.)
• Credit line: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
• Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1975.102

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.