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Title: Vatadāgē: Dado: lion and gana figures: stone screens
Creator: de Silva, Preethi
Date Created and/or Issued: 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: Two parts of a dado surrounding the circular edifice, the lower one with sculpted lions and the upper one with gana figures. Above them are stone screens with decorative floral motifs.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs01092.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/1202
Subject: Bas-relief
Sculpture
Time Period: 12th century CE
Place: Daladā Maluva (Terrace of the Tooth Relic): Vatadāgē
Polonnaruva
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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