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Object ID OB03035
Title Ram̆bǟva Pillar
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Inscription(s) IN03055
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Author Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe
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Description
Material Stone / unspecified
Object Type Pillar
Dimensions:
Width 30.48
Height 177.8
Depth 30.48
Weight
Details A quadrangular stone pillar inscribed on all four sides.
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Date 1891
Place Ram̆bǟva (Kuñcuṭṭu Kōrole)
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Place Ram̆bǟva (Kuñcuṭṭu Kōrole)
Authority Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1904-12). ‘No. 13. Ram̆bǟva Pillar-Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 1, pp. 172-175.
Details Discovered by H. C. P. Bell in 1891 in the village of Ram̆bǟva (Rambewa) on the right bank of the Yōda-äla canal, about 3 miles north-east of Īripinniyǟva. The pillar was leaning over at an angle of about 30 degrees on the bund of the tank.
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