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| Object ID | OB03050 |
| Title | Mäḍirigiriya Pillar |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03070 |
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| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 31.75 |
| Height | 182.88 |
| Depth | 31.75 |
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| Details | A stone pillar engraved on all four sides with an inscription in the Sinhalese alphabet of the 10th and early 11th centuries A.D. |
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| Found: | |
| Date | 1897 |
| Place | Medirigiriya |
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| Date | |
| Place | Medirigiriya |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 6. Mäḍirigiriya Pillar-Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 25-33. |
| Details | Discovered by the Archaeological Commissioner, H. C. P. Bell, in August 1897 in the course exploring the ruins of Mäḍirigiriya in Tamankaḍuva, about forty-six miles east-south-east of Anurādhapura. |
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