Archival Details

• Tradition: Gandhara
• Period: 300s–400s CE
• Medium: stucco with traces of paint
• Dimensions: Overall: 45.7 x 35.5 cm (18 x 14 in.)
• Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
• Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1985.31

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.