Afghanistan, Hadda, probably Tape Shotor / c. 300 CE
Monk bearing offerings
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Monk bearing offerings as sculpture (Afghanistan, Hadda, probably Tape Shotor · c. 300 CE).
This sculpture came from a monastery famous for preserving pieces of the Buddha's skull and robe.
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The museum identifies this sculpture as stucco.
The museum's collection notes: This Buddhist monk wears a robe over one shoulder, and his hair has been shaved. He reverently brings offerings of fruit or flowers to the Buddha. Triads depicting the Buddha with attendants bringing offerings were set up on the base of monuments called stupas, in niches defined by pilasters with Corinthian-style columns indicative of the region's Hellenistic heritage.
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