Ancient Gandhara Buddhist Carved Schist Statue of Atlas Kushan Empire 300 AD Sold It is a didactic work

It is a didactic work that gave the disease "syphilis" its name

Decmeber 3rd 2010

Michael Hurson (b

Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris (1976–77)

Ancient Gandhara Buddhist Carved Schist Statue of Atlas Kushan Empire 300 AD Sold It is a didactic workA finely carved Ancient Gandharan statue of Atlas, Kushan Empire, 2nd 3rd century CE. The Gandharan "Atlas figure" is depicted as a powerful, muscular male figure that emerged from Greco Buddhist art (2nd 3rd century CE) that adopted the Greek Titan Atlas, sometimes the figure is portrayed with wings. This figure appears crouched with one knee raised high with his arm resting above, the other hand on his other knee resting down. The statue is bare