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Title
Shrine room doorway
Date Created and/or Issued
ca. 1999
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
Entry door to a shrine with two similar life-size figures (mirror images) on either side of the door. Standing young male figures in tribanga bent posture and with lower part of torso clad in a long garment (dhoti) and upper torso and upper arm bearing ornaments. Heads also covered with ornamental headdresses. One hand holds a long stem with a large, white (lotus?) bud and the other a pot with only a small pink lotus partially open bud.
Type
image
Format
image/jp2
Identifier
acs00839.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/1039
Subject
Entrances
Sculpture
Doorways
Time Period
Unknown
Place
Mihintalē (Plateau of Mahinda)
Anurādhapura region
Sri Lanka
Relation
Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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