Reminds me of the time I took a Japanologist to see the Kanheri Buddhists caves in Bombay (dating to 300 BC). She was used to the esoteric Zen Buddhism so was, ahem, “surprised” to see the buddhist monks caves with paintings of big bosomed, tiny-waisted apsaras
Heh... a carving of lakshmi was found in Pompeii.