Cleveland Museum of Art

Monk bearing offerings

Date

c. 300 CE

Medium

stucco

Culture

Afghanistan, Hadda, probably Tape Shotor

Department

Indian and Southeast Asian Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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. This sculpture came from a monastery famous for preserving pieces of the Buddha's skull and robe.

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