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| Object ID | OB03045 |
| Title | Kirigallǟva Pillar |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03065 |
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| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 24.13 |
| Height | 152.4 |
| Depth | 24.13 |
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| Details | A stone pillar engraved on each of the first three sides with fifteen lines of writing within ruled spaces and on the fourth side with twelve lines of writing. |
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| Found: | |
| Date | 1892 |
| Place | Kirigallǟva |
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| Place | Kirigallǟva |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 1. Kirigallǟva Pillar-Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 1-5. |
| Details | Discovered by Bell in 1892 in Kirigallǟva, a hamlet in Kaḍawat Kōrale, about twenty miles north-north-east of Anuradhapura. |
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