Tapakalan Hera is an image of a stucco Graeco-Buddhist sculpture from the National Museum of Afghanistan, which was destroyed by members of the Taliban in 2001.
The original Tapakalan Hera came from the excavated Tapa-kalan monastery site near Hadda, between present day Kabul and Kandahar, and is part of the Hadda trove, excavated in the 1920s by a team of French archaelogists headed by Jules Barthoux.
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Tapakalan Hera one of the Kabul Series, with Hadda Buddha, and Gardez Shiva.
I've named the figure Hera for the diadem she wears, which is a typical attribute of Hera or the Roman Juno, the mother goddess. Which divinity or bodhisattiva this sculpture was meant to represent is uncertain though, since similar Hellenistic style heads were found on various bodies with Buddhist features.
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The Taliban used the teachings of the Koran, specifically the prohibition against depictions of beings created in God's image, to justify their destruction of part of the world's heritage.
I found the photograph of this destroyed sculpture on a website devoted to reproducing images of the lost treasures of the Kabul Museum.
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