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Greek garland bearer designs tend to be continuous, and the garlands are furnished with leaves and stems. Roman garland bearer designs are segmented and often use flowers and fruits for decoration.
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Capital with a figure showing features of Buddha and Heracles (100-200 CE), Old Termez Archaeological Museum.
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The garland-bearer design was extremely popular in the Mediterranean. It first appeared at the end of the
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Roman marble sarcophagus with segmented garlands decorated with flowers and fruits, 200-225 CE,
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holding up a continuous garland very large in relation to their size, formed a popular
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Garland bearers were also particularly associated to the cult of
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Garland bearers on a Roman sarcophagus, found in the vicinity of
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The garland bearer design can be seen in Buddhist frescoes in
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holding garlands is one of the most common motif of the
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The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination
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Garland and amorini, Gandhara, c. 2nd-3rd century CE
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Garland bearers on a Roman sarcophagus, 130-150 CE.
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Rome
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Greco-Buddhist art
Gandhara
India

Amaravati stupa
India

Miran
China
putti
ornamental
classical arts
India
China
Hellenistic period
Roman period
Asia Minor
Dyonisos
Garland bearers on a Roman sarcophagus, 130-150 CE.
Greco-Roman garland bearers, Rockefeller Museum
Rockefeller Museum
Garland bearers on a sarcophagus, in Aphrodisias.
Aphrodisias
Roman marble sarcophagus with segmented garlands decorated with flowers and fruits, 200-225 CE, Tarsus, Cilicia (modern Turkey).
Tarsus
Cilicia

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