Tamed by Religion: Centaurs in Gandhara


Buddhist sculpture from Gandhara is in a sense well known, but there is still much to be learned from it. Ulf Jäger (independent scholar, Germany) analyzes the sculpted imagery on a necklace, which leads into the subject of how centaurs are to be found across Eurasia and how the perception of them changed.

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