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| Object ID | OB03036 |
| Title | Slab of Queen Līlāvatī |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03056 |
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| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Stone slab |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 60.96 |
| Height | 121.92 |
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| Details | Dimensions are those of the inscribed area. An inscribed stone slab. The surface of the stone has been smoothed and ruled for the purpose of inscription. |
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| Other modern history | possibly found at Puliyaṉ-kuḷam |
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| Place | Archaeological Commissioner's Office, Anuradhapura |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1904-12). ‘No. 14. The Slab-Inscription Marked D/8 of Queen Līlāvatī,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 1, pp. 176-182. |
| Details | Seen by Wickremasinghe in the Archaeological Commissioner’s Office at Anurādhapura. The slab's original location is uncertain but, as it was placed together with objects from Puliyaṉ-kuḷam, a small village situated two and a half miles north-east of Anurādhapura, it is assumed to have come from the same locality. The material from Puliyaṉ-kuḷam included several inscribed slabs from the piḷima-gē and the stone revetment of the dāgaba, three of which were marked ‘C/6’, ‘C/7’ and ‘C/8’. The present inscription is marked ‘D/8’. The ruins at Puliyaṉ-kuḷam consist of a dāgaba and three Vihāras within a raised site banked up by a moulded revetment of large stone slabs and surrounded by around forty buildings and structures, mostly monks’ residences but also including a pokuṇa (pond) and a piḷima-gē (image house) for a colossal Buddha. |
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