Archival Details

• Tradition: Gandhara
• Period: 100s–200s CE
• Medium: schist
• Dimensions: Overall: 73.7 x 57.2 cm (29 x 22 1/2 in.)
• Credit line: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
• Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1997.151

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.