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Title
Goldfish Park: Bas-reliefs: Elephants in bas-relief
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
Northern bathing pool with chamber at center and a stone bed with a backrest. Frolicking elephants in water are carved in bas-reliefs on the rocks at the left side of the chamber at the back of the pool. Lotus flowers in a pond, also in bas-relief, fill the background.
Type
image
Format
image/jp2
Identifier
acs00657.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/761
Subject
Sculpture
Bas-relief
Time Period
Begun in the 3rd century BCE
Place
Ranmasu Uyana or Magul Uyana (Goldfish Park or Royal Park)
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation
Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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