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| Object ID | OB03048 |
| Title | Nǟgama Pillar |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03068 |
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| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 21.59 |
| Height | 137.16 |
| Depth | 21.59 |
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| Details | A stone pillar inscribed on all four sides with writing in the Sinahalese alphabet of the 10th century A.D. The lines of writing are engraved within horizontally ruled spaces. The top of the pillar has broken off, resulting in the loss of the top two lines of the inscription on each side. |
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| Found: | |
| Date | in or before 1895 |
| Place | Nǟgama |
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| Place | Nǟgama |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 4. Nǟgama Pillar-Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 14-19. |
| Details | Found on a pillar in the premises of the mosque in Nǟgama, a village in Nǟgampaha Kōrale, about twenty-five miles south of Aurādhapura. It was examined by the Archaeological Commissioner, H. C. P. Bell, in 1895. |
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