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 More

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