Cleveland Museum of Art
Procession of Non-Buddhists
- Date
- 1–100 CE
- Medium
- schist
- Culture
- Pakistan, Gandhara, Buner area, early Kushan period
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The naked figures may be followers of a non-Buddhist religion, such as the Jain or Ajivika. The figures with unusual hairstyles may be depictions of actors from a theatrical troupe. The mood of the procession is joyous, led by a bejeweled nude man clapping his hands to the accompaniment of a wind instrument. A mason's mark incised at the far right would indicate the position where this panel should be placed in the monument.
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