Archival Details

• Tradition: Gandhara
• Period: 1–100 CE
• Medium: gray schist
• Dimensions: Diameter: 4 cm (1 9/16 in.); Overall: 4.2 cm (1 5/8 in.)
• Credit line: Bequest of Elizabeth B. Blossom
• Source: The Cleveland Museum of Art, accession 1977.64

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.