| Metadata | |
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| Object ID | OB00071 |
| Title | Khoh Plates 2 of Hastin, year 163 |
| Subtitle | |
| Inscription(s) | IN00078 |
| Child Object | |
| Parent Object | |
| Related Objects | OB00071a OB00071b OB00071c OB00071d |
| Responsibility | |
| Author | |
| Metadata recorded by | Dániel Balogh |
| Authority for metadata | |
| Metadata improved by | Dániel Balogh |
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| Description | |
| Material | Metal / copper alloy |
| Object Type | Plate |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 19 |
| Height | 14 |
| Depth | |
| Weight | 500 |
| Details | A set of three plates, each inscribed on one face only. The plates are thin and deeply engraved, hence their backs were not suitable for writing on, as all details show through clearly. The third plate is much smaller than the first two, "evidently added as an afterthought, when it was found that the inscription could not be completed" (Fleet 1888: 101). Each plate is perforated about the middle of the upper side and originally connected by a ring through the hole. The three plates together (without ring and seal) weigh about 500 grams. The inscribed faces are presumably 1verso, 2recto and 3recto, in which case the top of each page faced inward when the plates were opened like a book (and page 3 faced a blank page). |
| History | |
| Created: | |
| Date | |
| Place | Khoh |
| Other ancient history | |
| Found: | |
| Date | probably shortly before 1848 |
| Place | Khoh |
| Other modern history | |
| Latest: | |
| Date | 1888 |
| Place | Provincial Museum, Lakhnau |
| 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 were transferred from Benares to the Allahabad Museum and then on to the Provincial Museum of Lucknow. The connecting ring and the attached seal were lost during transfer, but the plates themselves reached their destination. |
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