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| Object ID | OB03094 |
| Title | Giritaḷē Pillar |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03116 |
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| Responsibility | |
| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 24.13 |
| Height | 139.7 |
| Depth | 13.97 |
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| Details | A quadrangular stone pillar engraved on all four sides with an inscription. The top of the pillar has been rounded into a capital measuring six and a half inches (16.51 cm) in height. The lower portion of the pillar is missing. The lines of writing on the second and fourth sides of the pillar are almost completely obliterated and those on the first and third sides are also poorly preserved. |
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| Found: | |
| Date | 1905 |
| Place | Giritale |
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| Date | |
| Place | Archaeological Commissioner's Office, Anuradhapura |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1928-33). ‘No. 10. Giritaḷē Pillar Inscription (A. S. I. No. 370.),’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 3, pp. 138-148. |
| Details | Discovered in Giritaḷē, a village seven miles to the north-west of Poḷonnaruva, where it was first recorded by H. C. P. Bell in the Archaeological Survey of Ceylon Annual Report for 1905 (p. 39, no. 8). The pillar was subsequently brought to the premises of the Archaeological Commissioner at Anurādhapura, where it was seen by Senarath Paranavitana sometime before 1933. |
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