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Title
Moonstone: Guardstone: Makara balustrade
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
Entrance to a residential unit. The guardstone at the right side of the flight of steps is decorated with a nāgarāja and has a projection at the top, associated also with some of the earliest guardstones. The second guardstone is missing. The moonstone is without any decoration.
Type
image
Format
image/jp2
Identifier
acs00810.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/886
Subject
Moonstones (Early to late Anurādhapura Period)
Sculpture
Place
Jetavana Monastery
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation
Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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