Buddha statue in Egypt

I hope i don't sound stupid by asking, but how can you tell it is buddha?

 

         I have been looking at this image on and off about an hour, and I think what your seeing is an optical effect caused by a frontal view that is poorly lit, the heavy shadows are distorting the head area.

         All of this is made worse by the poor quality of the image. If you know the site this is from you might try to find a better shot and I think you will see what I mean.

          I didn't see anything unusual  in the styling of the piece. What I did see was a badly vandalized face which you can barely make out due to the poor quality image. 

       

 

Edited by red clay

 

       KV-

     your link isn't working.

     It's not that I doubt anyone KV, with an image as bad as this you can't be sure of anything.

Well, the skirt is at least typically Egyptian and so is the hieratic statue. Why would him be Buddha and not just a common or divinized Egyptian John Doe. 

My first thought, dam that skirt is fake if you see it with an eye of a designer you could find what I am saying!

Zoomed to 700%. Check this out...

Look at the lower point, there is also another thing maybe type of a skirt.
You can compare it with the statues beside it, check there skirts and then check the one on statue.

So finaly I would like to say that's (in my point of view) definitly not Buddha as you can compare it with the original statue of Buddha in Bamyan Afghanistan.

Check his dressing in here, he's got a kind of Shawl over him, where as he is top bared in that picture.

So I guess this is just a myth nothing else...

     I spent time looking around the net and also did
some digging in some of my own "stuff", I think that
the statue in question is one of those androgynous
likenesses that Amenhotep III had made portraying
himself as the kinder, gentler pharoh.
      People have for years been trying to tie them in
with everything from the cult of nothingness to the
idea that buddism predates all religion, or
something like that. The new age movement has
attempted to show a connection with christ and
buddha by finding depictions of christ with stylized
hair etc.

Originally posted by Gharanai So finaly I would like to say that's (in my point of view) definitly not Buddha as you can compare it with the original statue of Buddha in Bamyan Afghanistan. Check his dressing in here, he's got a kind of Shawl over him, where as he is top bared in that picture. So I guess this is just a myth nothing else...

I am not sure about the Egyptian statue being Budhha's.

As far as I know the topic 'who was the original Budhha' is debatable.So it won't be wise to say that an original Budhha statue exists.Budhha has been depicted in various forms in different countries and cultures.Forming conclusions about a statue being Budhha's based on attire isn't wise either.

Below are some pics of Budhha statues,in different attires and postures.

 

 

Unfortunately Bamyan Budhha Statue has been smashed.Which is a loss for history.

 

 

 

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