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Title: Thūpārāma Stūpa/Dāgaba: Altar
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: One of the four reconstructed altars at the cardinal points at the base of the dome. The lower parts of some pillars of the vatadāgē are square in shape and octagonal in the upper sections.
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Identifier: acs00270.TIF
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/362
Subject: Altars
Statues
Shrines (structures)
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

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