Seated Buddha from Gandhara
AD 100-300 · Resource
A grey schist statue of the seated Buddha carved in the Greco-Buddhist Gandhara style under the Kushan Empire. One of the earliest anthropomorphic images of the Buddha, fusing Hellenistic and Indian art.
On these timelines: British Museum, Resources: Combined
Around 200
- Reign of Marcus Aurelius (161)
- Sassanid Empire (224)
- Cai Lun invents paper (105)
- Teotihuacán at its peak (100)
- Galen (129)
- Hadrian's Wall built (122)
- Classic Maya civilization (250)
- Crisis of the Third Century (Roman Empire) (235)
- Reign of Diocletian (284)
- Han dynasty ends (220)