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Title
Western Monasteries (Tapovanaya); forest hermitage; stone wall
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
The stone wall is built of irregular shaped stones set on top of each other to fit perfectly without any mortar, i.e., utilizing dry stone or dry sack construction, a method used also in ancient Egyptian pyramids and Peruvian temples.
Type
image
Format
image/jp2
Identifier
acs00530.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/617
Subject
Monasteries
Walls
Time Period
8th and 9th century CE
Place
Western Monasteries
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation
Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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