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Title
Alms Hall: Refectory: rice trough
Creator
Bopearachchi, Osmund
Date Created and/or Issued
2014
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
See Signage for Alms Hall. The rich trough measures 17 X 5.5 feet and is 3 feet deep. Three inscriptions from the 10th century are found on one side. There are four alms halls in Anuradhapura.
Type
image
Format
image/jp2
Identifier
acs00166.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/244
Subject
Almshouses
Time Period
1070 CE
Place
Citadel
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation
Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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