OB03093 Anurādharpura Stone Canoe within the Citadel

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Object ID	OB03093
Title	Anurādharpura Stone Canoe within the Citadel
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Inscription(s)	IN03113 IN03114 IN03115
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Author	Senarath Paranavitana
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Material	Stone / unspecified
Object Type	trough
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Width	838.2 cm
Height	160.02 cm
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Details	A stone trough or canoe aligned lengthways north–south. The sides of the trough are formed of four upright slabs, pitched slightly outwards; the slabs at the sides measure 23 feet 10 inches (726.44 cm) and those at the end 5 foot 3 inches (160.02 cm). The bottom is formed of four slabs of which the centre two are half the width of those at either end. The total external dimensions of the trough are 27 feet 6 inches (838.2 cm) by 5 feet 3 inches (160.02 cm); the internal dimensions are 23 feet 10 inches (726.44 cm) by 3 feet 6 inches (106.68 cm) by 3 feet 3 inches (99.06 cm). There are two inscriptions on the outer face of north end of the trough, one consisting of eleven lines (IN03113) and another consisting of three lines (IN03114). A third inscription, also consisting of three lines (IN03115), is engraved on the outer face of the east side of the trough.
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Place	Anuradhapura
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Place	Anuradhapura
Authority	Paranavitana, S. (1928-33). ‘No. 9. Inscriptions on the Stone Canoe within the Citadel, Anurādharpura (A. S. C., Nos. 365–367),’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 3, pp. 131-137.
Details	Situated about 200 yards to the east of the ‘Green Path’, at a distance of nearly a mile from the Sacred Bō-Tree at Anurādhapura and some 300 yards to the south of the ruined brick structure named the Geḍigē. Nearby are the tall monoliths of a ruined shrine, identified as the Temple of the Tooth, and a partly effaced slab-inscription of Mahinda IV (IN03031).
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