Portrait of a Child

Portrait  of  a  Child

Gandhar  School, 1st  Century  BCE

            This is a portrait of a small child looking  at the world below. It is most likely  a funerary  figure,  a sculpture  which marks the grave of a small child. This beautiful  looking child must have died  early in life. He is a picture  of innocence.  Having  gathered a bed sheet about him, he looks out at the world from above, from heaven. Or is it a portrait  of an infantile Greek civilization  taking ginger steps in a new part  of  the  world, India?