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Title: Western Monasteries (Tapovanaya); forest hermitage; decorated urinal
Creator: Bopearachchi, Osmund
Date Created and/or Issued: 2005
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: Detail of the arched top of a lavishly decorated stone urinal, with carvings of a central lotus blossom, which would have supported a water-jar, and two small ganas and two makara heads flanking it.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00527.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/622
Subject: Monasteries
Sculpture
Time Period: 8th and 9th century CE
Place: Western Monasteries
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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