The nomadic influence of the army is represented by the great number of quiver and gorytes carried.
Gandhara, Graeco-Buddhist art (1st to 5th century AD) Part of frieze in gray schist representing an elephant carrying a load on the back. Greco-Buddhist art is a synthesis of Greek and Indo-Buddhist styles that started in Gandhara (an ancient kingdom of Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan centered on the Swat and Kabul valleys, two tributaries of The Indus) when the Indo-Greek rulers, descendants of the companions of Alexander the Great, came into contact with Indian Buddhists, especially under Menander I (reign 160-135 BC), called Milinda Sanskrit.
The relay of the Indo-Greeks was taken in the first century by the Kushan rulers whose zenith is under Kanishka I, another great protector of Buddhism.
One of the notable aspects of Greco-Buddhist statuary is the figurative representation of the Buddha, formerly represented in symbolic form (wheel, footprint), which took the face of the Greek gods and especially of Apollo. The style of Gandhara flourished from the 1st century, under the Kushan dynasty, in the 5th century, when it disappeared with the invasion of the Shvetahūna, or white Huns. The Buddhas of Bamiyan, destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban, were one of the most spectacular achievements of the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara.
Text above and photo below taken from the site of sale Proantic.com
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