Hadda Agreement
Hadda may refer to: *Hadda, Afghanistan *Hadda, Pakistan *Hadda, Sana'a, Yemen *Abdeljalil Hadda *Rib-Hadda *Hadda Brooks *Yapa-Hadda *Hadda bettle - ''Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata'' See also

* Hada (other) * Haida (other) {{dab, geo ...
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Hadda, Afghanistan
Haḍḍa ( ps, هډه) is a Greco-Buddhist archeological site located ten kilometers south of the city of Jalalabad, in the Nangarhar Province of eastern Afghanistan. Hadda is said to have been almost entirely destroyed in the fighting during the civil war in Afghanistan. Background Some 23,000 Greco-Buddhist sculptures, both clay and plaster, were excavated in Hadda during the 1930s and the 1970s. The findings combine elements of Buddhism and Hellenism in an almost perfect Hellenistic style. Although the style of the artifacts is typical of the late Hellenistic 2nd or 1st century BCE, the Hadda sculptures are usually dated (although with some uncertainty), to the 1st century CE or later (i.e. one or two centuries afterward). This discrepancy might be explained by a preservation of late Hellenistic styles for a few centuries in this part of the world. However it is possible that the artifacts actually were produced in the late Hellenistic period. Given the antiquity of these ...
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