Archival Details

• Tradition: Gandhara
• Period: 150–200 CE
• Medium: schist
• Dimensions: Overall: 119.7 cm (47 1/8 in.); Head: 1.5 x 3.2 cm (9/16 x 1 1/4 in.)
• Credit line: Gift of Morris and Eleanor Everett in memory of Flora Morris Everett
• Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1972.43

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.