| Metadata | |
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| Object ID | OB00070 |
| Title | Khoh Plates 1 of Hastin, year 156 |
| Subtitle | |
| Inscription(s) | IN00077 |
| Child Object | |
| Parent Object | |
| Related Objects | OB00070a OB00070b OB00070c |
| Responsibility | |
| Author | |
| 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 | ~20 |
| Height | ~13 |
| Depth | |
| Weight | |
| Details | A set of two plates, each inscribed on one face only. Perforated about the middle of the upper side of each inscribed face and connected through the hole by a ring with an attached seal. The inscribed faces are presumably 1verso and 2recto, in which case the top of each page faced inward when the plates were opened like a book. |
| History | |
| Created: | |
| Date | |
| Place | Khoh |
| Other ancient history | |
| Found: | |
| Date | probably shortly before 1848 |
| Place | Khoh |
| Other modern history | |
| Latest: | |
| Date | 1888 |
| Place | |
| Authority | Fleet, J. F. (1888). Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings and Their Successors. Calcutta, Superintendent of Government Printing. |
| Details | Probably discovered shortly before 1848, perhaps by Colonel Sykes, in a valley near the village of Khoh (Google Map 24.365845, 80.719145), near the town of Uchaharā (Unchehara in Google Maps), presently Madhya Pradesh. However, Fleet 1888: 100, apparently relying on Cunningham 1879: 7, says the plates were discovered about 1852 by a Colonel Ellis. Apparently the plates later came to the hands of Major Kittoe, who presented them to F-E. Hall sometime before 1861, who gave them to the Benares College. At a later time (before 1888) they disappeared while being transferred from Benares to the Allahabad Museum and then on to the Provincial Museum of Lucknow. |
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