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| Object ID | OB03080 |
| Title | Alutväva Pillar |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03100 |
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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 | 121.92 |
| Depth | 24.13 |
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| Details | A quadrangular stone pillar engraved on three sides with an inscription. The text is written between ruled lines 2 inches (5.08 cm) apart. The usual emblems of the sun, the moon, the crow and the dog are engraved, one above the other at the end of the inscription on the third side of the pillar. |
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| Found: | |
| Date | in or before 1895 |
| Place | Alutwewa |
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| Place | Alutwewa |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 37. Alutväva Pillar-Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 229-235. |
| Details | Found at Alutwväva (Alutwewa, a hamlet near Eppavala), where it was examined by H. C. P. Bell in 1895. |
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