Abstract
The "Buddha of the Great Miracle" from Païtava, in the collection of the Guimet Museum in Paris, was found by Joseph Hackin in 1924. An almost identical piece exists in the Museum of Berlin and comes from the same site. In the Kabul Museum, a statue extremely close comes from Shotorak excavated by Jacques Meunié some ten years later, next to the monastery sounded by Barthoux in 1925, in a place called Karratcha. The theme is native to Kapiça where Begram was the center, witnessing a local sensitivity, apparently distinctive from the one found in Gandharan art. Not only does the grey-green schiste used by the sculptors seem specific, but also the treatment of the relief conceived as a stele, the image detached from the background of bare stone, the haloed head, the body sometimes entirely nimbled. The figures of Païtava and those of Karratcha suggest an evolution in time that confirms the Shotorak site, and the final point would be the "Great Miracle" of Sarai Khwaja.
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