<P> Following the conquests of Alexander the Great, Greek culture spread as far as India, as revealed by the excavations of Ai - Khanoum in eastern Afghanistan, and the civilization of the Greco - Bactrians and the Indo - Greeks . Greco - Buddhist art represented a syncretism between Greek art and the visual expression of Buddhism . Discoveries made since the end of the 19th century surrounding the (now submerged) ancient Egyptian city of Heracleum include a 4th - century BC depiction of Isis . The depiction is unusually sensual for depictions of the Egyptian goddess, as well as being uncharacteristically detailed and feminine, marking a combination of Egyptian and Hellenistic forms around the time of Alexander the Great's conquest of Egypt . </P> <P> In Goa, India, were found Buddha statues in Greek styles . These are attributed to Greek converts to Buddhism, many of whom are known to have settled in Goa during Hellenistic times . </P> <Ul> <Li> <P> Statue of a prince or dynast without crown, traditionally thought to be a Seleucid prince, maybe Attalus II of Pergamon . Bronze, Greek artwork of the Hellenistic era, 3rd - 2nd centuries BC . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> The Winged Victory of Samothrace (Hellenistic), The Louvre, Paris </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Jockey of Artemision . Late Hellenistic bronze statue of a mounted jockey, National Archaeological Museum, Athens . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Sepulchral monument of a dying Adonis, polychrome terracotta, Etruscan art from Tuscana, 250 - 100 BC </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Fragment of a marble relief depicting a Kore, 3rd century BC, from Panticapaeum, Taurica (Crimea), Bosporan Kingdom </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Ancient Greek terracotta head of a young man, found in Tarent, ca . 300 BC, Antikensammlung Berlin . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Female head partially imitating a vase (lekythos), 325 - 300 BC . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Bronze portrait of an unknown sitter, with inlaid eyes, Hellenistic period, 1st century BC, found in Lake Palestra of the Island of Delos . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Greco - Buddhist frieze of Gandhara with devotees, holding plantain leaves, in Hellenistic style, inside Corinthian columns, 1st--2nd century CE . Buner, Swat, Pakistan . Victoria and Albert Museum . </P> </Li> <Li> <P> Gravestone of a woman with her child slave attending to her, c. 100 BC (early period of Roman Greece) </P> </Li> </Ul> <Li> <P> Statue of a prince or dynast without crown, traditionally thought to be a Seleucid prince, maybe Attalus II of Pergamon . Bronze, Greek artwork of the Hellenistic era, 3rd - 2nd centuries BC . </P> </Li>

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