Cleveland Museum of Art
Architectural Bracket with Wrestlers
- Date
- 100s–200s CE
- Medium
- schist
- Culture
- Pakistan, Gandhara
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This sculpture probably derived from Greco-Roman prototypes of nude athletes, but here it has probably been transposed into a scene from the boyhood of the Buddha, when it is said that he excelled in all forms of athletics.
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