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| Object ID | OB03034 |
| Title | Īripinniyǟva Pillar |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03054 |
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| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 22.86 |
| Height | 299.72 |
| Depth | 22.86 |
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| Details | A stone pillar with a pot-shaped capital (1ft long), a quadrangular shaft (6ft 10in long) and a base (2ft long). The base was originally sunk into the ground. An inscription is engraved over all four sides of the shaft. |
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| Date | 1892 |
| Place | Īripinniyǟva |
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| Place | Īripinniyǟva |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1904-12). ‘No. 12. Īripinniyǟva Pillar-Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 1, pp. 163-171. |
| Details | Found by Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe on 17 August 1892 lying on the ground in a dense thicket to the north-east of the pokuṇa (pond) in the deserted village of Īripinniyǟva, situated about one and a half miles east of Tittagōnǟva (possibly the Thittagonewa at 8.706005, 80.758902 on Google Maps) in Kun͂cuṭṭu Kōrale, North-Central Province. The pillar was found about 300 feet west of a ruined Vihara. The dāgaba of this monastery, also in ruins, stands about 110 feet to the north. |
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