Ancient Vidarbha showing find-spots of Vākāṭaka inscriptions. (Zenodo).
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| Object ID | OB00172 |
| Title | Miregaon Plates of Prabhavatigupta |
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| Inscription(s) | IN00185 |
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| Related Objects | OB00172a OB00172b OB00172c OB00172d OB00172e OB00172f |
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| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Metadata improved by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Description | |
| Material | Metal / copper alloy |
| Object Type | Plate |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 18.9 |
| Height | 9 |
| Depth | |
| Weight | 1475 |
| Details | A set of four plates, the first inscribed only on the inner side, the others on both faces. They probably have no raised rims (this is not reported explicitly). The hole (diameter 1 cm) for the connecting ring is on the left-hand side, vertically at the centre, and horizontally 4 cm from the edge. The plates are linked by a ring, on which a seal is also hung, presumably by a copper band riveted to the back of the seal as in other Vākāṭaka seals. |
| History | |
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| Found: | |
| Date | 1982 |
| Place | Miregāon |
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| Latest: | |
| Date | 2000 |
| Place | Central Museum, Nagpur |
| Authority | Shastri, Ajay Mitra, and Kawadkar, K. D. (2000). Miregāon Plates of Prabhāvatī Guptā, Year 20, Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 81, pp. 135-151. |
| Details | Discovered in 1982 while digging in a field in Miregāon (20.999564, 79.937811), Lakhānī tehsil, Bhaṇḍārā district, Maharashtra. Acquired by the collector of Bhaṇḍārā and handed over to the curator of the Central Museum in Nagpur. Studied in the original by K. D. Kawadkar and edited from photographs by A. M. Shastri. |
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