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| Object ID | OB03125 |
| Title | Galle Trilingual Stele of Zheng He (鄭和) |
| Subtitle | |
| Inscription(s) | IN03150 IN03151 IN03152 |
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| Responsibility | |
| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Stone slab |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 76.2 cm |
| Height | 144.78 cm |
| Depth | 12.7 cm |
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| Details | A stone slab engraved with inscriptions in three languages: Tamil (in the top-left portion of the slab), Persian (in the bottom-left portion) and Chinese (in the right portion). The inscribed area is surrounded by a floral border. The top of the slab has rounded corners and is carved with two dragons facing each other. |
| History | |
| Created: | |
| Date | 1409 |
| Place | Nanjing |
| Other ancient history | Made in Nanjing and carried to Sri Lanka; temple where it was placed appears to have been looted by the Portuguese in 1588; it was still visible in late 1600s. |
| Found: | |
| Date | 1911 |
| Place | Galle |
| Other modern history | Recovered in a culvert 'near the turn to Cripps Road' |
| Latest: | |
| Date | 2022 |
| Place | Colombo Museum |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S., with an appendix by H. W. Codrington. (1928-33). ‘No. 36. The Tamil Inscription on the Galle Trilingual Slab,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 3, pp. 331–341. |
| Details | Discovered in 1911 by H. F. Tomalin, the then Provincial Engineer at Galle, in a culvert near the turn to Cripps Road within that town and afterwards moved to the Colombo Museum. |
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