Ancient Vidarbha showing find-spots of Vākāṭaka inscriptions. (Zenodo).
| Metadata | |
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| Object ID | OB00155 |
| Title | Tirodi Plates of Pravarasena II |
| Subtitle | |
| Inscription(s) | IN00168 |
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| Parent Object | |
| Related Objects | OB00155a OB00155b OB00155c OB00155d OB00155e OB00155f OB00155g |
| 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 | 19.6 |
| Height | 9.7 |
| Depth | |
| Weight | 1686 |
| Details | A set of four plates, the first and last inscribed only on the inner side, the others on both faces. Their surface is flat, without raised rims. The hole (1 cm in diameter) for the connecting ring is on the left-hand side, vertically at the centre, and horizontally 5.3 cm from the edge. The plates were linked by a ring, on which the seal was also hung by a copper band attached to the back of the seal. At the time they were studied, the rivet holding together the ends of the ring and the rivet attaching the seal to the band were lost, and all the elements were loose. |
| History | |
| Created: | |
| Date | 5th century CE |
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| Other ancient history | |
| Found: | |
| Date | before 1934 |
| Place | Tiroḍi |
| Other modern history | |
| Latest: | |
| Date | 1963 |
| Place | Central Museum, Nagpur |
| Authority | Mirashi, Vasudev Vishnu. (1963). Inscriptions of the Vākāṭakas (Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum 5). Ootacamund: Archaeological Survey of India. |
| Details | Found some years before 1934 in the manganese mine of Tiroḍi (21.680262, 79.724991) and acquired by T. A. Wellsted, manager of the mine. They were studied in the original by Mirashi. Sent to Nāgpur Museum before 1934, where they were cleaned of corrosion. The rubbings shown here were given by Wellsted to the British Museum. |
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