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| Title | Kantēru copper plate of Skandavarman |
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| Inscription(s) | EIAD168 |
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| Description | |
| Material | Metal / copper |
| Object Type | Plate |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 14 |
| Height | 4.5 |
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| Details | Four copper plates found with a ring and an inscribed seal bearing the figure of couchant bull; furnished with original plate numbering inscribed vertically in the left margin. |
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| Date | before 1925 |
| Place | Kantēru |
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| Date | 2011 |
| Place | Government Museum, Chennai |
| Authority | Sridhar, T. S., and Balasubramanian, R. (2011). A Catalogue of Copper Plate Grants (1918-2010). Chennai: Commissioner of Museums, Government Museum, pp. 35-36. |
| Details | Found buried underground in Kantēru before 1925. According to Sridhar and Balasubramanian 2011: 36, the plates are kept in Chennai Government Museum, but the EIAD team has been unable to locate them during fieldwork from February 2016 onward. |
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