Image house: Entrance with moonstones
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Title |
Image house: Entrance with moonstones |
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Photographer |
Bopearachchi, Osmund |
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Built by |
Prince Agghabodhi (later King Agghabodhi IV, 667–683 CE) (Mahāvamsa) |
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Subject |
Moonstones (Early to late Anurādhapura Period) |
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Site Location |
Maligawila (Maligawela), monastery complex, possibly at the location called Kanagama. |
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City/Region |
Maligawila (Maligawela). Monerāgala District, Uva province. 15 km from Butthala. |
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Country |
Sri Lanka |
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Year Established |
7th century CE. Fallen statue, found in the 1950s, restored and raised in 1991. |
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Description |
Steps at entrance: two moonstones carved on rectangular slabs. The carved ornamentation of the two moonstones is much simpler than those found in many of the earlier moonstones in Anuradhapura (which are semicircular in shape); these moonstones are components of several laterally placed slabs of different widths and with carved ornamentation depicting animals surrounding and between the two slabs carved with moonstones. The narrower of the moonstones includes animal figures, but the wider and larger one is devoid of them or other decoration and is an early stage of the evolving decoration found on moonstones and called a pātikā. |
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Notes |
Site Location attributed to the ancient great chronicle of Sri Lanka, Mahāvamsa, Chapter XLV. |
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Publisher |
Claremont Colleges Library |
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Date |
2005 |
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Collection |
Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - http://cdm15831.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15831coll15 |
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Rights |
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
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Type |
Image |
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Format |
image/jp2 |
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Object File Name |
acs00086.JPG |
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