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Title: Image house: Moonstone
Creator: de Silva, Preethi
Date Created and/or Issued: 2016
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 well-preserved moonstone is located at entrance to the image house near Thupārāma, earlier presumed to be of the Temple of the Tooth. It is of gneiss. This moonstone includes 16 sacred geese. The concentric semicircles include one comprising nine animals: three elephants, and two each of a horse, a lion and a bull. Diameter: 2.370 meters.
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Identifier: acs00280.TIF
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/372
Subject: Moonstones (Early to late Anurādhapura Period)
Time Period: 3rd century BCE and later
Place: Thūpārāma: Stūpa/Dāgäbe & Arāmic complex
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15