Detail of Demons to the right of the Buddha in
Scenes from the life of the Buddha
Kushan Gandhara, Pakistan or Afghanistan, late 2nd-early 3rd century AD
Scenes from the life of the Buddha
Historical period: Kushan dynasty, late 2nd-early 3rd century
Medium: Stone
Geography: Pakistan or Afghanistan
Accession Number: F1949.9c
Type: Buddhist frieze
Previous Owner: Hagop Kevorkian 1872 - 1962
Freer Gallery, Smithsonian
The lower right-hand figure is referenced as Fig. 42g in The Armies of Bactria 700BC-450AD Volume 2 (Illustrations) by Valerii P Nikonorov
Figure 42: Depictions in sculpture of the Gandharan school, which flourished in the North-Western Indian region under the Great Kushan kings (late 1st to mid-3rd century AD), dealing with the local actualities of warfare within that epoch …and in Plate 7 Gandharan warriors in The Armies of Bactria 700BC-450AD Volume 2 (Illustrations) by Valerii P Nikonorov. Colour Plates by Rory Little.
(g) Armed personage of a stone relief from the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, who has a quilted corselet of thick soft material as well as armoured skirt as thigh-defence. Worthy of note is the soldier's method of suspending the sword by means of a strap passing through the scabbard-slide, which must have been brought to the lands under review by the Kushan conquerors.
