OB00181 Bidar Plates of Devasena

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Object ID	OB00181
Title	Bidar Plates of Devasena
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Inscription(s)	IN00194
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Related Objects	OB00181a OB00181b OB00181c OB00181d
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Metadata recorded by	Dániel Balogh
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Description
Material	Metal / iron
Object Type	Plate
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Details	This is a 20th-century iron copy of an original set of three copper plates. The first is inscribed only on the inner side, the second and third on both faces (3 verso is only partly filled). No measurements have been reported. They probably have no raised rims. The hole for the connecting ring is on the left-hand side, vertically at the centre, and horizontally at about one fifth of the length of the plate from the edge. The plates are linked by a ring, the ends of which are soldered to a seal.
History
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Date	1980-85
Place	Bidar
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Date	1986
Place	Birla Archaeological and Cultural Research Institute, Hyderabad
Authority	Parabrahma Sastry, P. V. (1986). Hyderabad Plates of Vakataka Devasena, Year 5, Journal of the Epigraphical Society of India, 13, pp. 71-75.
Details	These plates were brought for sale to the Birla Archaeological and Cultural Research Institute in Hyderabad sometime before 1986, having been created, presumably recently, by a bīdṛī artist of Bīdaṛ (17.914389, 77.528625), Karnataka. They are purportedly (and credibly) accurate copies of an original set in copper, which had been shown to the bīdṛī worker by a villager "from Bechchali taluk, Bidar district," (Parabrahma Sastry 1986: 71) who refused to part with them. Bidar district does not seem to have a taluk with a name even remotely resembling Bechchali.
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