Image / Lion Pond/Bath (Sinha Pokuna)

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Title: Lion Pond/Bath (Sinha Pokuna)
Creator: Bopearachchi, Osmund
Date Created and/or Issued: 2015
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: Decorated frieze with bas-reliefs surrounding the pond, with a lion figure standing on its hind quarters sculpted out of the living rock below it.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00873.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/1023
Subject: Bathhouses
Bas-relief
Sculpture
Time Period: Unknown
Place: Mihintalē (Plateau of Mahinda)
Anurādhapura region
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15