Cleveland Museum of Art
Male Atlantean figure
- Date
- c. 300 CE
- Medium
- stucco
- Culture
- Afghanistan, Hadda
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The musculature, thick curly locks of hair, and deeply inset eyes of this fragmentary figure show the sculptor's incorporation of Greco-Roman forms. His hunched posture suggests that he supported a heavy weight, such as the dome of a stupa on his back. Rows of figures would have visually supported the stupa, in which relics of the Buddha or other revered Buddhist leader were interred. Most sculptures from Hadda are preserved in museums, since the site was razed in 2001.
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