Hadda

Haḍḍa is a Greco-Buddhist archeological site located ten kilometers south of the city of Jalalabad [1]. Some 23,000 Greco-Buddhist sculptures, both clay and plaster, were excavated in Hadda during the 1930s and the 1970s [1]. The findings combine elements of Buddhism and Hellenism in an almost perfect Hellenistic style [1]. Tapa Shotor was a large Sarvastivadin Buddhist monastery [1]. The earliest structures at Tapa Shotor date to the Indo-Scythian king Azes II (35-12 BCE) [1]. A sculptural group excavated at the Hadda site of Tapa-i-Shotor represents Buddha surrounded by perfectly Hellenistic Herakles and Tyche holding a cornucopia [1].