A GANDHARA GREY SCHIST FIGURE OF BUDDHA SAKYAMUNI, standing with his left leg slightly forwards, on a base, carved with two adorants with fans flanking Buddha Sakyamuni, his partly broken right arm raised, the left stretched along his body holding tip of garment, wearing long pleated garment, his face with downcast expression, aquiline nose, smiling lips, elongated earlobes, backwards waved hairdress and usnisha, remainings of a large plain halo behind, late 2nd Century A.D.

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A GANDHARA GREY SCHIST FIGURE OF BUDDHA SAKYAMUNI, standing with his left leg slightly forwards, on a base, carved with two adorants with fans flanking Buddha Sakyamuni, his partly broken right arm raised, the left stretched along his body holding tip of garment, wearing long pleated garment, his face with downcast expression, aquiline nose, smiling lips, elongated earlobes, backwards waved hairdress and usnisha, remainings of a large plain halo behind, late 2nd Century A.D.
100 cm high (slight damage to extremities)

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