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Title: Island Park: Royal baths
Creator: Bopearachchi, Osmund
Date Created and/or Issued: 2005
Publication Information: Claremont Colleges Library
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Ancient Cultural Sites and Royal Residences
Rights Information: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Description: This sunken bath is of brick and faced with stone and has steps leading down from the ground level. The water for it was provided from the circular pond. An open lotus flower in bas-relief decorates the first step of a flight of steps leading down from the ground level. (See center bottom).
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs01258.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/1330
Subject: Ponds
Bathhouses
Time Period: 12th century CE
Place: Royal Baths
Polonnaruva
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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