The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.24

c9.24

II. — The image of Christ is reproduced from a plate in Professor STRZYGOWSKI'S *Orient oder Rom*; let us not omit to confess that it has been artificially isolated from the rest of the sarcophagus. In contrast to its slender figure the image of Buddha (no. 527 of the Lahore Museum; height m. 0,60) is noticeably squat. The gesture of the left arm we shall find again in the Buddha of this same plate XVI, 1, and in the sixth of the seven which are ranged on the base of plate XXVI, 1. For comparison the Sophocles of the Lateran museum may be found reproduced in most manuals of classical archæology. (Cf. pp. 135-136).