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| Object ID | OB03162 |
| Title | Colombo Museum Fragmentary Pillar |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03203 |
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| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 27.305 cm |
| Height | 106.68 cm |
| Depth | 26.035 cm |
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| Details | The upper half of a stone pillar, engraved on all four sides with an inscription. The bottom half of the pillar is missing. The very top of the pillar, including the capital (if there was one), has been lopped off, damaging the first line of writing on each of the four faces. The pillar appears to have been repurposed, sometime after it was originally inscribed and erected, as a riser in a flight of steps, resulting in the loss of the last letters in each line on side A and one to three at the beginning of each line on side D. One of the edges of side B has also been chiselled, but no considerable damage has been caused to the writing on this face. |
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| Place | Colombo Museum |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1934–41). ‘No. 32. A Fragmentary Pillar-Inscription in the Colombo Museum,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 4, pp. 246–252. |
| Details | The pillar entered the collection of the National Museum in Colombo sometime prior to 1939, when the inscription was published by Senarath Paranavitana in the fourth volume of Epigraphia Zeylanica (pp. 246–252). The provenance of the pillar has not been recorded. |
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