This is definitely a greco-buddhist statue. The first statues of Buddha were first made by the Greeks of the great Alexander in the Hindu valley. That's why you see the clothes are like that and there is even a statue that has Hercules as a guardian of Buddha.
Not to be contrarian, just to add extra detail. I believe that’s a stele, not a statue (unless there’s more than one), and to be technical—just as the depicted statue is the Buddha, dressed as Apollo, the stele had the dharma protector Vajrapani in the guise of Hercules, so it wasn’t Hercules himself.
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