Gandara relief sculpture

Gandara relief sculpture

This is a Gandhara relief depicting a person riding between the two humps of a camel, holding a sacred object in both hands, with a solemn and sorrowful expression. The person in front turned around to look at the artifact, with the same serious expression on their face. This relief is from the Swat region in the third century AD and is made of gneiss. Gandara art is a Buddhist art form from the Gandara region in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent (now eastern Pakistan and Afghanistan), which reached its peak around the 1st century BC to the 5th century AD.