Archival Details

• Tradition: Gandhara
• Period: 100s CE
• Medium: schist
• Dimensions: Overall: 68 x 41.3 cm (26 3/4 x 16 1/4 in.)
• Credit line: Gift of George P. Bickford
• Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1958.474

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.