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Title: Stone Pillar: Elephant
Creator: Bopearachchi, Osmund
Date Created and/or Issued: 2008
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: Close-up of a figure of an elephant depicted in bas-relief. It is on a pillar with a kalpalatā motif including figures of animals in the center of circular frames of the foliage.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00722.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/826
Subject: Bas-relief
Pillars
Time Period: Built in 3rd-4th century CE and thereafter
Place: Jetavana Monastery: Jetavana Stūpa
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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