The Sultanganj Buddha, 500-700. Artist Cast by the lost-wax technique on a clay core, this 6th to 7th Century bronze statue was excavated by E B Harris, a railway engineer, at Sultanganj, the state of Bihar, in northern India during the course of railway construction in 1862.

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Keywords: antiquities, asia, british, bronze, buddhism, empire, metal, religion, sculpture, south