Male Atlantean figure

Curatorial Overview

“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.”