OB00067 Kalaikuri-Sultanpur Plate of the Time of Kumaragupta I

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Object ID	OB00067
Title	Kalaikuri-Sultanpur Plate of the Time of Kumaragupta I
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Inscription(s)	IN00074
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Metadata recorded by	Dániel Balogh
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Description
Material	Metal / copper alloy
Object Type	Plate
Dimensions:
Width	24
Height	14
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Weight	606
Details	A single plate engraved on both sides. There is an oval projection in the middle of the (viewer's, recto) left side, to which a now lost seal would have been attached. There is a triangular hole in the centre of the oval. Judging from the indentation of the lines next to this area, the seal would have been about 8 cm in diameter.
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Place	Kalaikuri-Sultanpur
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Place	Varendra Research Museum
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Details	Purchased in 1935 from a Muslim householder of Kalaikuri (Bogra District, near Naogong/Naogaon) and sent immediately to the Varendra Research Society of Rajshahi. Reportedly it had been kept in that Muslim family for a long time as an heirloom. Sircar 1943a: 12 supposes this may in fact be the plate found together with the Baigram plate (OB00055) and taken away by coolies. Sanyal 1955-56: 57, however, reports that the Muslim family in question was living in Sultanpur (a suburb of Naogaon) at the time the plate was purchased from them, and had moved there two generations earlier from Kalaikuri when they inherited land there. He believes the family may have brought the plate along from Kalaikuri or may have obtained it there as part of their inheritance. He does not comment on Sircar's equation of the plate to the lost Baigram plate. The plate is possibly now at the Varendra Research Museum.
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