page_title: Hellenistic influence on Indian art
section_title: Decorative moldings and sculptures
hierarchical_section_title: Hellenistic influence on Indian art / Influence on Indian monumental stone architecture (268–180 BCE) / Instances of Hellenistic influence / Decorative moldings and sculptures
caption_attribution_description: English: Allahabad Ashoka pillar frieze. Frieze of capital of Lat at Allahabad, with flame palmette within multiple calyx lotuses. Now in the Allahabad Museum. Top portion of this capital. Treasury of the Siphnians frieze 525 BCE. Frieze at Didyma. Longer length of the Allahabad abacus. Frieze at Pergame, 2nd century BCE.
context_page_description: Hellenistic influence on Indian art reflects the artistic influence of the Greeks on Indian art following the conquests of Alexander the Great, from the end of the 4th century BCE to the first centuries of the common era. The Greeks in effect maintained a political presence at the doorstep, and sometimes within India, down to the 1st century CE with the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and the Indo-Greek Kingdoms, with many noticeable influences on the arts of the Maurya Empire especially. Hellenistic influence on Indian art was also felt for several more centuries during the period of Greco-Buddhist art.
caption: Two lotuses framing a "flame palmette" surrounded by small rosette flowers, over a band of beads and reels. Allahabad pillar, circa 250 BCE.
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