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The Meaning of the Berenike Buddha
Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. The item was excavated last March but has only been receiving wide attention in the last month: the two-foot-tall image of Siddhartha Gautama, the historical Buddha, carved from Anatolian marble, in the Greco-Indian Gandhara style, with details suggesting production in a workshop in the ancient metropolis of Alexandria, Egypt. It had been placed in the forecourt of the Great Temple at Berenike, on the Red Sea coast of Roman Egypt, around 100 CE. It is reportedly the only statue of the Buddha, made west of Afghanistan in the premodern period, discovered to date. What does it mean? We had known that Buddhism, the first “world religion” (that is, the first to be spread deliberately
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